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    The Tremper Mound and Works are a Hopewell (100 BCE to 500 CE) earthen enclosure and large, irregularly shaped mound. The site is located in Scioto County...
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    The Kolomoki Mounds is one of the largest and earliest Woodland period earthwork mound complexes in the Southeastern United States and is the largest...
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    Mounds State Park is a state park near Anderson, Madison County, Indiana featuring Native American heritage, and ten ceremonial mounds built by the prehistoric...
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    the Eastern Woodlands. The complex, which includes 17 mounds, an earthen geometric enclosure, and numerous habitation areas, was most likely built during...
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    Hopewell tradition (category Mound Builders)
    Serpent Mound Raven effigy pipe, Mound City Otter effigy pipe, Mound City Bird figure, Tremper Mounds Copper spider(?) from a Ross County mound Bird head...
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    The Norton Mound group, (also known as Norton Mound Site (20KT1) and Hopewell Indian Mounds Park), is a prehistoric Goodall focus mounds site in Wyoming...
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    Valley. This study of the prehistoric Mound Builders of North America was a landmark in American scientific research and the early development of archaeology...
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    Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks (category Mound Builders)
    Earthworks Great Circle Earthworks Hopeton Earthworks Mound City High Bank Works Hopewell Mound Group Seip Earthworks Fort Ancient Locations of the eight...
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    Many pre-Columbian cultures in North America were collectively termed "Mound Builders", but the term has no formal meaning. It does not refer to specific...
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  • 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...
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    burial mounds. See Prehistory of Ohio. c. 800 BC: Adena people erect earthworks and mounds in present-day Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania...
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    Park is a United States national historical park with earthworks and burial mounds from the Hopewell culture, indigenous peoples who flourished from...
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    Point Peninsula complex (category Mound Builders)
    area, including the Serpent Mounds Park, Cameron's Point and LeVescounte Mounds in Prince Edward County. The Serpent Mounds Park at Rice Lake was occupied...
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    peoples practiced mound-building but were generally non-sedentary. Their sustenance resulted from hunting, gathering/collecting, and fishing. Swift Creek...
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    Shriver Circle Earthworks (category Mounds in Ohio)
    low conical mound measuring 40 feet (12 m) across and 5 feet (1.5 m) high was located at the enclosures center. When first surveyed and excavated in...
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    The Dunns Pond Mound is a historic Native American mound in northwestern Logan County, Ohio, United States. Located near Huntsville, it lies along the...
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  • two different earthworks within its bounds — the Williamson Mound and the Pollock Works — the park straddles Massies Creek as it flows through a small...
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  • The Oak Mounds is a large prehistoric earthwork mound, and a smaller mound to the west. They are located outside Clarksburg, in Harrison County, West Virginia...
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    Serpent Mounds Park is a historical place located near Keene, Ontario, Canada. Serpent Mounds operated as a provincial park, established in 1955 through...
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  • U.S. Mount Tremper, New York, a hamlet Tremper Mound and Works, in Scioto County, Ohio, U.S. All pages with titles beginning with Tremper All pages with...
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    coincided with this yearly event. The mounds and the artifacts contained within them indicate contact with the Adena and Hopewell of the Ohio River valley...
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    Mound is a Native American mound in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located in modern Amberley Village in Hamilton County, the mound...
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  • is a large, conical burial mound that was part of at least six episodes of burials. It measured about 16 ft high (4.9 m) and 85 ft wide (26 m). It contained...
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    Waiya (alternately spelled Nunih Waya; Choctaw for 'slanting mound') is an ancient platform mound in southern Winston County, Mississippi, constructed by indigenous...
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    List of Hopewell sites (category Mounds in the United States)
    Price, and Gary M. Feinman (2008). Images of the Past, 5th edition. New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 274–277. ISBN 978-0-07-340520-9. "Pharr Mounds-Ceramic...
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    The cultivation of local indigenous plants other than squash and sunflower declined and was eventually abandoned. The formerly domesticated plants returned...
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    mounds in which single- or multiple-event burials, often cremated, were interred along with rich grave goods including copper bracelets, beads, and gorgets...
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    into the Mississippi. The mounds are owned and displayed to the public by the State Historical Society of Iowa. The mound group is located east of Wapello...
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    in excavations, but no mounds in the Saugeen complex have been excavated. The main distinction between the Saugeen complex and the nearby Point Peninsula...
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    Mound Cemetery in Marietta, Ohio, is a historic cemetery developed around the base of a prehistoric Adena burial mound known as the Great Mound or Conus...
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