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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The Mound Builders were members of various indigenous North American cultures who constructed earthwork mounds. Mound builder or mound builders may refer...
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Megapode (redirect from Mound builder (bird))
The megapodes, also known as incubator birds or mound-builders, are stocky, medium-large, chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet in the family...
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Newark Earthworks (redirect from Mound Builders Park)
Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. This study of the prehistoric Mound Builders of North America was a landmark in American scientific research and...
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burial mound function. The builders of the effigy mounds are usually referred to as the Mound Builders. Over 3200 animal-shaped effigy mounds have been...
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Mississippian culture (redirect from Mississippian mound builders)
know their ancestors had built the mounds dotting the landscape. This contributed to the myth of the Mound Builders as a people distinct from Native Americans...
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Institution opposed the popular myth that an "ancient white race" were the Mound Builders. The role of the Smithsonian Institution in debunking such claims led...
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spots such as Asia, Europe and the Americas. "Mound builders" have more commonly been associated with the mounds in the Americas. They all have different meanings...
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Archaeology and racism (section Mound Builders)
by black Africans. The Mound Builders were members of various indigenous North American cultures who constructed earthwork mounds from roughly 3500 BCE...
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that verified north American indigenous people constructed the mounds. The mound builders were a variety of pre-Columbian cultures who inhabited the areas...
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Cahokia (redirect from Cahokia Mound)
S2CID 133966204. "New insights into the curious disappearance of the Cahokia Mounds builders". St. Louis Public Radio. May 4, 2015. Retrieved November 7, 2020....
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Tumulus (redirect from Burial mound)
tumulus (pl.: tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or (in Siberia and Central...
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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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Adena culture (section Mounds)
Archaeology. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-1907-6. "Mounds and Mound Builders". Archived from the original on 2008-06-23. Retrieved 2008-09-11...
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eastern prairie peoples learned to raise crops and shape pottery from the mound builders to their east. 500 BC–700 AD: Old Bering Sea culture thrives in the...
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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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A platform mound is any earthwork or mound intended to support a structure or activity. It typically refers to a flat-topped mound, whose sides may be...
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1500 AD, but are representative of a variety of cultures known as the Mound Builders. Each site has a historical marker and is accessible by road. Opened...
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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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contemporary with mound builders. Stephen Dennison Peet, The Mound Builders, pp. 38–44. Elephant effigy pipes, of the characteristic mound builder platform style...
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Poverty Point (category Mound Builders)
portal Mound Builders Poverty Point Culture Marsden Mounds Toltec Mounds Archaeological State Park, in Arkansas Watson Brake LSU Campus Mounds National...
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Commons has media related to Criel Mound. Criel Mound The Kanawha Valley and its Prehistoric People Mounds & Mound Builders The South Charleston Museum...
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as Mound Builders. This particular tumulus or burial mound was built in successive stages over a period of a hundred years. The Grave Creek Mound was...
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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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Hamilton Council, forming the final boundaries of the Mound Builders Area Council. Mound Builders Area Council continued to serve Warren County and the...
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The Adena mound, the type site for the Adena culture of prehistoric mound builders, is a registered historic structure, on the grounds of the Adena Mansion...
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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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Lake Maxinkuckee (category Mounds in Indiana)
area were Mound Builders, most likely the Potawatomi or Miami. Several mounds were built on the banks of the lake, the largest being "Pare Mound," thought...
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mounds. The effigy mound builders usually buried their dead in small pits or laid them on carefully prepared surfaces. The mounds were then built over...
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The scrubfowl are the genus Megapodius of the mound-builders, stocky, medium-large chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet in the family Megapodiidae...
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