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Friday, February 28, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Luisiana State

Park offers prehistoric cooking lessons

Visitors฀to฀Poverty฀Point฀ World Heritage Site are invited to take part in a ranger- led cooking demonstration at 11 a.m. on Jan 11.

The program offers a unique look at prehistoric cooking with an earth oven, showing how the Native inhabitants used heated earthen objects and hearths to฀prepare฀their฀food.฀Come฀ and join the rangers around the fire as they cook food as indigenous peoples did thousands of years ago!

Poverty Point World Heritage Site offers visitors the unique opportunity to experience and learn about the earthworks and those individuals who raised them from the ground between the years of 1700 and฀ 1100฀ BCE.฀ The฀ $4฀ admission fee provides access to the museum, film theatre, hiking trail, driving tour, tram tour, and any interpretive events taking place at the site.

Children฀ (3฀ and฀ under)฀ and฀senior฀citizens฀(62฀and฀ over)฀ are฀ admitted฀ free฀ of฀ charge.

Poverty Point is located at฀ 6859฀ HWY฀ 577,฀ Pioneer ฀ LA฀ 71266.฀ The฀ park฀ is฀ open฀ daily฀ from฀ 9฀ a.m.฀ to 5 p.m. For additional information, call toll free at 888-926-5492฀ or฀ 318-9265492.฀ You฀ can฀ follow฀ Poverty฀ Point World Heritage Site on Facebook for more info along with updates to programs and park operations.


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