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What's Shakin with Shaner
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What's Shakin with Shaner
Ancient North America's First City
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Shakin Shaner
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Episode 40
Join Shaner and Bob as they discuss Poverty Point in northeastern Louisiana. Many archaeologists and scientists consider it as North America’s First City. It lies 15 miles west of the Mississippi River. At 1500 BCE, everywhere else in North America had small villages of about 100 residents, however, Poverty Point had between 4000 and 5000 residents. This was unprecedented at time.
To check out maps of the site, Maps and Images of Poverty Point (shakinshaner.com)