TESTING MOUNDS B AND E AT POVERTY POINT From: Southeastern Archaeology | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: Kidder, Tristram R; Ortmann, Anthony; Allen, Thurman | Copyright Southeastern Archaeological Conference Summer 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Testing of Poverty Point's Mound E in the summer of 2001 revealed that this structure is a pre-Columbian flat-topped mound built in multiple stages. The initial construction was a low, flat-topped platform surmounted by a layer of fine gray silt similar in appearance to ash. The architecture of Mound E resembles Mound B, except that Mound B was finished with two final conical stages. Coring in Mound B failed to document an ash lens at its base but showed that the mound was built atop a platfo...