Talk:Poverty Point culture

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I strongly suggest that this article be moved/renamed from Poverty Point Civilization to Poverty Point culture in order to be standardized with other North American Eastern Woodlands pre-Columbian archaeological cultures, such as the Mississippian culture, Hopewell culture, Adena culture, Swift Creek culture, and others. Also, as shown in the civilization article, the word can have exclusive meanings that would not include the Poverty Point peoples. I will perform this change after a few days if there is no discussion. TriNotch 04:13, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I also suggest that the category:civilizations should be removed. I have already added the category:Archaeological cultures instead, but I have left the civilizations category in case there is discussion. TriNotch 04:16, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Move completed, "civilization" removed or replaced with "culture" or even archaeological culture, and implications of urbanism removed. Corrected "What Links Here" except when it was a user talk page or part of this discussion. TriNotch 19:56, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Poverty Point/Mound Builders

Whilst this particular aspect of archaeology and culture is not my area of expertise, I was wondering what the relationship was between the culture in this article and in that of the Mound Builders in which the mounds at Poverty Point appear to feature prominently. The two pieces do not appear to link to one another in any way. Should they do so? Silverthorn 16:32, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

This article is in the "Mound Builders" category for that reason. But a mention in the article might not be amiss. TriNotch 23:33, 20 July 2006 (UTC)