On the south end of West Carroll Parish is Poverty Point, a nearly square-mile complex of ancient major earthwork semi-circles and radiating lanes, plus additional platform mounds.

Archeologists have determined that the site was built in the Late Archaic period beginning about 1500 BCE, and it was the central trading grounds for the Poverty Point culture, people who called the lower Mississippi River Valley home.

It was located less than a mile from the Poverty Point site.

* Poverty Point National Monument

Examples include the Archaic Southwest, the Arctic small tool tradition, the Poverty Point culture, and the Chan-Chan culture in southern Chile.

These include: Poverty Creek, which has 12 campsites as well as an open camping ground which holds 80, Gallaghers Point which has six campsites, Mission Point which has 12 campsites which are only accessible by boat, Lime Pocket which has six campsites, also only accessible by boat and Ocean Beach which has 63 campsites.

The newly constructed Poverty Point Reservoir, which hosts the acclaimed Black Bear Golf Club, is located just north of the town on Louisiana Highway 17 near Warden, Louisiana.

The Poverty Point National Monument is located nearby, the most complex earthworks site built by a Late Archaic culture.

Fairhaven's localities include Fairhaven Center, North Fairhaven, East Fairhaven, Oxford, Poverty Point, Nasketucket, Sconticut Neck, and Winsegansett Heights.

The Spray originally belonged to Captain Eben Pierce of Fairhaven, a whaling captain, who gave the derelict boat, slowly deteriorating in a ship cradle in a meadow on Fairhaven's Poverty Point, to his friend, Captain Slocum.

He led the Duke-based International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development, a task force of scholars and leaders that published Poverty, Conflict, and Hope: A Turning Point in Central America ( also known as the Sanford Commission Report since he was " the principal catalyst of the commission's work ") in 1989 with the principles for promoting peace, democracy and equitable development in Central America.

* c. 700 BC: The civilization at Poverty Point, Louisiana, is at its peak, importing materials from as far away as the Great Lakes and Appalachian Mountains areas.

Watson Brake is now considered the oldest mound complex in the Americas, preceding that built at Poverty Point ( both are in northern Louisiana ) by nearly 2, 000 years.

More than 100 sites have been identified as associated with the regional Poverty Point culture of the Late Archaic period, and it was part of a regional trading network across the Southeast.

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The Poverty Point site in Louisiana, 1500 BCE

Watson Brake was under construction nearly 2, 000 years before the better-known Poverty Point, and building went on for 500 years.

Built about 1500 BC, Poverty Point in Louisiana is a prominent example of Late Archaic mound-builder construction ( c. 2500 BCE-1000 BCE ).

It is the major site among 100 associated with the Poverty Point culture, and is one of the best-known early examples of earthwork monumental architecture.

Ceramics reached southern Florida ( Mount Elizabeth ) by 4000 BP, Nebo Hill ( in Missouri ) by 3700 BP, and Poverty Point ( in Louisiana ) by 3400 BP.

Fiber-tempered pottery of very similar form spread along coasts and river valleys of the Southeastern United States from the Atlantic coast into Alabama, reaching northwestern Florida ( Norwood culture ) and the Gulf coast by 1300 BC, the interior Middle South by 1100, and Poverty Point by 1000 BC.

* Poverty Point culture, ( Poverty Point ), Louisiana and Mississippi beginning about 2200 BCE and lasting to about 700 BCE, during the late Archaic period in the Americas,

Watson Brake's dating is 1900 years before the better-known Poverty Point in Louisiana, begun about 1500 BCE and previously thought to be the earliest mound site in North America.

The Poverty Point culture inhabited portions of the state of Louisiana from 2000 – 1000 BCE during the Archaic period.

The memorial is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

In December 2000 Guinea-Bissau qualified for almost $ 800 million in debt-service relief under the first phase of the enhanced HIPC initiative and is scheduled to submit its Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper in March 2002.

Karl Popper used the term historicism in his influential books The Poverty of Historicism and The Open Society and Its Enemies, to mean: " an approach to the social sciences which assumes that historical prediction is their primary aim, and which assumes that this aim is attainable by discovering the ' rhythms ' or the ' patterns ', the ' laws ' or the ' trends ' that underlie the evolution of history ".

An important argument, which favors the generative approach, is the Poverty of the stimulus argument.

The Southern Poverty Law Center ( SPLC ) is an American nonprofit civil rights organization noted for its legal victories against white supremacist groups ; its legal representation for victims of hate groups ; its monitoring of alleged hate groups, militias and extremist organizations ; and its educational programs that promote tolerance.

Poverty is one of the reasons behind child trafficking and some children are smuggled with their parents ' consent.

Tanzania is also engaged in a Policy Support Instrument ( PSI ) with the International Monetary Fund, which commenced in February 2007 after Tanzania completed its second 3-year Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility ( PRGF ), the first having been completed in August 2003.

Another, Ek Nath Dhakal, is a member of the Nepalese Constituent Assembly, and a first Minister for Co-operatives and Poverty Alleviation Ministry of the Government of Nepal.

The strategic policy of IFAD is detailed in Strategic Framework for IFAD 2011-2015: Enabling the Rural Poor to Overcome Poverty.

The Butte is currently the home of the Thin Air Theatre Company that produces plays year-round including such shows as A Cripple Creek Christmas Carol, Werewolves of Poverty Gulch, The Christmas Donkey and The Vampire of Cripple Creek.

Alan Brinkley has suggested that " the gap between the expansive intentions of the War on Poverty and its relatively modest achievements fueled later conservative arguments that government is not an appropriate vehicle for solving social problems.

Poverty and lack of development is widespread.

He was also active in the " Make Poverty History " campaign during early 2005, in the lead-up to the G8 summit in Scotland, and is the patron for UK-based charity Street Child Africa.

Poverty is the pronounced deprivation of well being.

World Bank: Poverty is pronounced deprivation in well-being, and comprises many dimensions.

Poverty is usually measured as either absolute or relative poverty ( the latter being actually an index of income inequality ).

The poverty level of counties in the Appalachian region of Kentucky is 24. 4 % compared to the United States Poverty Level of 12. 4 %.

His most famous work, Progress and Poverty ( 1879 ), is a treatise on inequality, the cyclic nature of industrial economies, and the use of the land value tax as a remedy.

Second, it is believed that social outcomes can only be improved by reducing income poverty ( known as Capability Expansion through Poverty Reduction ).

Poverty is often a root cause of child abandonment.