The Backusburg Mounds (15-CW-64) are an archaeological site in the Jackson Purchase region of the U.S. state of Kentucky. Located near the tiny community...

the mounds were in circulation, typically involving the mounds being built by a race of giants. A New York Times article from 1897 described a mound in...

Cahokia Mounds are considered to be the largest and most complex archaeological site north of the great pre-Columbian cities in Mexico. Cahokia Mounds is a...

existed about the origins of the mounds ranged from the theory of central Mexico's indigenous people building the mounds, to the work of foreign refugees...

900 to 955 CE. Located at the Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near Collinsville, Illinois, the mound size was calculated in 1988 as about 100...

burial mound. The people built rectangular wooden buildings to house certain religious ceremonies on the top of the platform mounds. The mounds at Ocmulgee...

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550 AD. It is one of the earliest mounds in the Appalachian Summit along with the similarly aged Garden Creek Mound, both of which are in the French Broad...

includes six large platform mounds (Mounds A through F), five smaller mounds (Mounds H through L), and at least one large plaza. Mound G, which is older than...

This is a list of notable burial mounds in the United States built by Native Americans. Burial mounds were built by many different cultural groups over...

archaeological sites are located near the community; one of them, known as the Backusburg Mounds, is one of the premier sites throughout the Jackson Purchase. A post...

regionally. It was known for building large, earthen platform mounds, and often other shaped mounds as well. It was composed of a series of urban settlements...

 1325–1375 CE. Etowah has three main platform mounds and three lesser mounds. The Temple Mound, Mound A, is 63 feet (19 m) high, taller than a six-story...

on the mound seem to have been added to stop slumping of the enormous mound. Although the mounds were primarily meant as substructure mounds for buildings...

includes at least three major platform mounds and a large semi-circular moat/ditch. While much of the mounds were razed to be used as road fill for the...

is a surname. Backus may also refer to: Backusburg, Kentucky, an unincorporated community Backusburg Mounds, an archeological site in Calloway County...

Kincaid built at least 19 earthwork mounds during this period, mostly the characteristic Mississippian platform mounds. Since 2003 teams from Southern Illinois...

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lechworth Mounds. Letchworth Mounds Archaeological State Park is a 188.2 acre Florida State Park that preserves...

hundreds. The site is dominated by two large platform mounds, with at least eight smaller mounds scattered around a central plaza area. Agriculture was...

Dickson Mounds is a Native American settlement site and burial mound complex near Lewistown, Illinois. It is located in Fulton County on a low bluff overlooking...

the mounds have been extensively plowed by local farmers and only two of the original seven mounds remain. Mound B is 10 feet (3.0 m) in height. Mound D...

flat-topped platform mounds and the stockades, believed to have served both ceremonial and defensive functions. Three platform mounds remain on the site...

remaining mounds. Julice Mound Culture, phase, and chronological table for the Mississippi Valley "Indian Mounds of Northeast Louisiana: Transylvania Mounds"....

at the Angel Mounds site near Evansville, Indiana and the Ware Mounds site in Union County, Illinois. Denmark Mound Group Kincaid Mounds "National Register...

Mound 72 is a small ridgetop mound located roughly 850 meters (2,790 ft) to the south of Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois. Early...

Today, about 80 mounds are preserved in the nearby Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site directly across the Mississippi River. Sugarloaf Mound is the only one...

culture platform mounds to the northwest, Lamar-style mounds are more rounded in shape, as compared to squared-off rectangles. Mound B, completely round...

later become mounds were village areas at this time, including the locations of Mounds 3 and 4, as well as areas north of Mounds 2 and 4. Mound 5 was begun...

restore the mounds to their pre-Columbian condition and add walking trails to the park. The site also includes a museum. Winterville Mounds, named for...