Cultural sphere · approximate1700 BCE – 1100 BCE · 600 years
Poverty Point culture
No editorial summary yet for Poverty Point culture. The border provenance and the wars recorded for this polity are what the dataset holds.
Borders & accuracy
Cultural sphere
An archaeological culture; extent is defined by where its material remains have been found rather than by political control.
- SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
- DETAILhand-traced from Waldman Atlas of the North American Indian; Smithsonian Handbook of North American Indians
- SNAPSHOT1400 BCE
- MATCHEDUnited States/Canada
- POLITY TYPEculture
Also during this period
No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.
- Battle of Kadesh1274 BCEWorld-changing · 10K dead
- Hyksos Expulsion (Ahmose I)1552–1527 BCEWorld-changing
- World-changing
- Sea Peoples Invasions1200–1150 BCEWorld-changing
- Battle of Megiddo (Thutmose III)1479 BCEMajor conflict · 10K dead
- Hyksos Conquest of Egypt1720–1650 BCEMajor conflict
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1700 BCE and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Poverty Point culture (1700 BCE – 1100 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/poverty-point-culture · Sources & methodology