In case you missed it: Mystery Mounds at Poverty Point!
Added 2025-03-06 13:07:26 +0000 UTCIn this episode Time Team’s geophys wizz Jimmy Adcock travels across the Atlantic to join a team of archeologists investigating these mysterious subterranean features. Could the origin of these mounds provide the answer to why Poverty Point’s prehistoric inhabitants chose this location for their ancient city? The team has just three days to find out and all thanks to the support we get from you!
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I so happened to go there the day after Jimmy was there. My daughter likes to explore and she took me with her. Was a lot of walking which she didn't now if I could but I did. Looking forward to any future investigations there might be there.
Penny Doyle
2025-03-29 20:13:46 +0000 UTCI had no idea this existed, so very glad to see this. (My sympathies regarding the heat!). Placement of the wood circles was interesting, wondering if there served a practical every day purpose as, considering their location and the proximity to the river, might they be related to fishing, like some kind of weir - guess I'd better do some research and find out! Thanks for this episode!
Elaine P
2025-03-13 03:56:53 +0000 UTCI did get help and now it's updated.
Gretchen M Root
2025-03-11 23:32:31 +0000 UTCI need help in updating my credit card information. Is there someone that can help?
Gretchen M Root
2025-03-11 22:57:38 +0000 UTCWhat a great episode. I love to see how it all ties in together, the natural geology and how the residents lived there.
Tara Bogia
2025-03-10 20:58:07 +0000 UTCThank you for this detailed, and intense survey. A lot more tto be found yet. Well done!
Alan McMillan
2025-03-09 15:44:53 +0000 UTCNever seen a situation where they were so pleased to discover it was a natural feature!
Teresa Gualtieri-Clark
2025-03-09 03:55:58 +0000 UTCI think there’s something in the human psyche about circular and spiral patterns, you really do see it across so many cultures and time periods - heck, when I doodle I often draw spiralling shapes which aren’t so different to the types of patterns you see in some rock carvings. Hard to separate exposure from innate with regard to that of course!
Patrick Emery
2025-03-08 20:49:46 +0000 UTCGreat work Jimmy! Very informative.
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Cheryl Kurucz
2025-03-06 18:31:20 +0000 UTCI live in Northern Alabama. There are mounds here as well as Tennessee. But this was so fascinating to understand just how they coped and thrived under those circumstances. The effigies were very intriguing. I would love to reproduce them and experiment how to use them.
Pamela Chavers
2025-03-06 17:25:44 +0000 UTCCircles are found worldwide, fascinating to think how they all did the same thing!!
Lorna Dryden
2025-03-06 17:00:56 +0000 UTCWonderful to see the data collected and interpreted to give a tangible payoff for the days of sweat-equity you invested in it. Time Team has been such a treasure to so many persons like myself who have always been interested in history but have known very little about how the science of archeology works to gather new data and advance our knowledge of the life of our ancestors.
James Updegraff
2025-03-06 15:47:03 +0000 UTCSuper excited about this episode. I'd never even heard about this site before it was mentioned in time team. Now, if ya'll could just do the spiro mounds in near by Oklahoma.
Kama Miller
2025-03-06 14:37:02 +0000 UTCWould have been interesting to know if the mud would have been channeled to flow… mud springs like those of Aqua Sulis before the Romans arrived.
Melissa Lawrence
2025-03-06 14:22:50 +0000 UTCThoroughly enjoyed. Fascinating site and loved seeing geophysics used in a different way.
Richard Lowe-Jackson
2025-03-06 14:01:50 +0000 UTCFascinating, and there seems to be a lot more to discover at such an enigmatic site. Well done, Jimmy. More please. 👍
Kerry Hennigan
2025-03-06 13:41:55 +0000 UTCI thought it was a very good episode. It was well edited and very informative. Jimmy was a great presenter! I was wondering when we'd hear more about this fascinating site.
Jane McCormack
2025-03-06 13:27:10 +0000 UTC
