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    mound through his discovery of an ash bed containing many prehistoric artifacts, north of the conical mound. After the excavation, the conical mound was...
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    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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    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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    or conical mounds are also numerous, with thousands of them scattered across the American Midwest, some over 24 m (80 ft) tall. These conical mounds appear...
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    Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A molehill (or mole-hill, mole mound) is a conical mound of loose soil raised by small burrowing mammals, including moles...
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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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    Hopewell tradition (category Mound Builders)
    group of seven burial mounds on a bluff overlooking the Iowa River near its confluence with the Mississippi River. The conical mounds were constructed between...
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    up to the large conical mound nearby, and he asserted that an intaglio was always connected with a conical mound, with the conical mound used as a lookout...
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    Tumulus (redirect from Burial mound)
    Common forms include conical mounds, ridge-top mounds, platform mounds, and animal effigy mounds, but there are many variations. Mound building in the USA...
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    An ice volcano is a conical mound of ice formed over a terrestrial lake via the eruption of water and slush through an ice shelf. The process is wave-driven...
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    mound cluster would be covered with earth and converted into a single large mound. Unlike many of the region's conical mounds, the Luthor List Mound has...
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    pre-Columbian earthwork north of Mexico. This site had numerous mounds, some with conical or ridge tops, as well as palisaded stockades protecting the large...
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  • squirrel, a group of conical mounds, several linear mounds, and a four-legged deer effigy. A village stood on the terrace between these mounds and Lake Mendota...
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    activities and rituals, including games. Mound D is one of the eight visible mounds at the Kolomoki site. It is a conical mound that is 20 feet (6.1 m) high from...
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    Mississippian culture is known for its earthen mounds, designed in shapes including platform, conical, and ridgetop (as also seen at the largest center...
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    Woodland and Late Woodland periods. The main mound was for many years thought to be typical conical mound, but in the 21st century it was discovered to...
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    (33 ft). The Twin Mounds (Mound 6), a double-conical mound located a few meters south of the Ozier Mound. The Twin Mounds were burial mounds. Base approximately...
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    landmark in Miamisburg. It is the largest conical burial mound in Ohio,[citation needed] as of 1848, the mound was 68 feet (21 m) tall and had a circumference...
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    The Lion's Mound (French: Butte du Lion, lit. "Lion's Hillock/Knoll"; Dutch: Leeuw van Waterloo, lit. "Lion of Waterloo") is a large conical artificial...
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    and six conical mounds. It originally included another bird effigy and two additional conical mounds, but development destroyed these mounds and damaged...
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    from Shrum Mound; other grounds are under study". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved 14 September 2016. Media related to Shrum Conical Indian Mound at Wikimedia...
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    Miamisburg Mound is a conical Native American Mound in Miamisburg, Ohio. At 65 feet (20 m) tall and 800 feet (240 m) in circumference, it is the largest...
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    linear, compound, conical, and an enigmatic cruciform mound. The earliest map of the mounds was made by John Hotopp in 1974, and the mound group was mapped...
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    from the Mediterranean to the Ganges Valley and can be related to the conical mounds on circular bases from the 8th century BCE that are found in Phrygia...
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    Apollo and Artemis. From its Sacred Harbour, the horizon shows the three conical mounds that have identified landscapes sacred to a goddess (presumably Athena)...
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  • located in La Salle Parish in south central Louisiana. It is a large, conical burial mound that was part of at least six episodes of burials. It measured about...
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    [citation needed] The mounds at New Lisbon consist of three conical mounds, two linear mounds, one chain mound, and a panther effigy mound, which some interpret...
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    includes effigy mounds in the shape of a water spirit, a bird, and two bears, along with several linear and conical mounds. The mounds were built during...
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    Cahokia (redirect from Cahokia Mound)
    located, 68 of which are in the park area. The mounds are divided into three different types: platform, conical, and ridge-top. Each appeared to have had its...
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    burial. Successive conicals likely evolved into linear mounds. Bird mounds likely came next as modifying a linear mound to make a bird mound required only...
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