An effigy mound is a raised pile of earth built in the shape of a stylized animal, symbol, religious figure, human, or other figure. The Effigy Moundbuilder...
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The Alligator Effigy Mound is an effigy mound in Granville, Ohio, United States. The mound is believed to have been built between AD 800 and 1200 by people...
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Effigy Mounds National Monument preserves more than 200 prehistoric mounds built by pre-Columbian Mound Builder cultures, mostly in the first millennium...
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The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-feet-long (411 m), three-feet-high prehistoric effigy mound located in Peebles, Ohio. It was built on what is known...
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Rock Eagle (redirect from Rock Eagle Effigy Mound)
Rock Eagle Effigy Mound is an archaeological site in Putnam County, Georgia, U.S. estimated to have been constructed c. 1000 BC to AD 1000 (1,000 to 3...
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An effigy is a sculptural representation, often life-size, of a specific person or a prototypical figure. The term is mostly used for the makeshift dummies...
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Rock Hawk (redirect from Rock Hawk Effigy Mound)
Rock Hawk Effigy Mound is an archaeological site in Putnam County, Georgia, United States. It consists of thousands of pieces of quartzite laid in the...
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as effigy mounds. Some mounds, such as a few in Wisconsin, have rock formations, or petroforms within them, on them, or near them. While these mounds are...
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is 14 kilometres (8.7 mi). The crater is named after the Serpent Mound, an effigy mound, located on a plateau in Brush Creek Valley within the crater. European-American...
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Cahokia (redirect from Cahokia Mound)
The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site /kəˈhoʊkiə/ (11 MS 2) is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (which existed c. 1050–1350 CE) directly...
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Some effigy mounds were constructed in the shapes or outlines of culturally significant animals. The most famous effigy mound, Serpent Mound in southern...
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The Panther Intaglio Effigy Mound is a ground depression in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. The effigy is a reverse mound: a depression in the shape of a panther...
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well-preserved effigy mound group, representing one of the largest and best-preserved collections of such mounds in the state. Mounds in the park are...
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excavators dug into Craig Mound in the 1930s, they found many beautifully crafted ritual artifacts, including stone effigy pipes, polished stone maces...
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interest to archaeologists include hill forts, henges, mounds, platform mounds, effigy mounds, enclosures, long barrows, tumuli, ridge and furrow, mottes...
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the original on December 10, 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-24. "High Cliff Effigy Mounds" (PDF). Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Archived from the...
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arms. In 2003, archaeologist Brad Lepper suggested that the Alligator Effigy Mound in Granville, Ohio, represents the underwater panther. Lepper posits...
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Mendota Mental Health Institute (redirect from Farwell's Point Mound Group)
2014. "Effigy Mounds". Mendota Mental Health Institute. Retrieved June 16, 2014. Birmingham, Robert A. (2010). Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape...
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Serpent Mound. In 1999, an archaeological study by Brad Lepper and Tod A. Frolking used radiocarbon testing to show that the Alligator Effigy Mound in Granville...
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effigy shape such as the Panther Intaglio Effigy Mound, which can be seen in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, where it is the last remaining intaglio mound in...
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High Cliff State Park (redirect from High Cliff Mounds)
(Ho-Chunk) leader, overlooks the northeast end of Lake Winnebago. The effigy mounds at the top of the escarpment have led to a small part of the park being...
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Monks Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the Americas and the largest pyramid north of Mesoamerica. The beginning of its construction dates...
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Historic Sites in Ontario Mound Mound builder (people) Serpent Mound, a similar effigy mound in Ohio, USA "Serpent Mounds National Historic Site of Canada"...
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above effigy pottery. After many subsequent burials and the addition of more yellow clay in layers, the mound was shaped as a larger circular mound about...
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Adena culture (section Mounds)
extreme western Pennsylvania. The Adena culture was named for the large mound on Thomas Worthington's early 19th-century estate located near Chillicothe...
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Burrows Park Effigy Mound and Campsite is an archaeological site in Burrows Park in Madison, Wisconsin. The site includes a bird-shaped effigy mound with an...
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Bureau of American Ethnology (section Mound Survey)
over the identity of the Mound Builders, the term for the prehistoric people who had built complex, monumental earthwork mounds. Archaeologists, both amateur...
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Woodland mounds in the United States. Sauls' Mound, at 72 feet (22 m), is the second-highest surviving mound in the United States. The Pinson Mounds are now...
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Nanih Waiya (redirect from Nanih Waiya Cave Mound (Neshoba County, Mississippi))
Waiya (alternately spelled Nunih Waya) (Choctaw: slanting mound) is an ancient platform mound in southern Winston County, Mississippi, constructed by indigenous...
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during the Late Woodland period, the mound is the only surviving anthropomorphic effigy mound in North America. The mound depicts a humanoid figure with horns...
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