Poverty Point is a prehistoric earthworks of the Poverty Point culture, located in the Southern United States. It is 15.5 miles from the Mississippi River. Poverty Point comprises several earthworks and mounds built between 1650 and 700 BCE, during the Archaic period in the Americas by a group of Native Americans of the Poverty Point culture (1). Long-distance trade was a big part of of Poverty Point culture. Stones were moved over long distances, some up to over 1,000 miles (2). Many different kinds of materials were traded, like: flint, sandstone, quartzite, slate, shale, granite and other coarse igneous rocks (3). They came from many areas of the mid-continent, including the Ouachita, Ozark, and Appalachian mountains and the Upper