The Pinson Mounds comprise a prehistoric Native American complex located in Madison County, Tennessee, in the region that is known as the Eastern Woodlands...
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Look up pinson in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pinson may refer to: Pinson, Alabama Pinson, Tennessee Pinson Mounds, a prehistoric site in West Tennessee...
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Area. Pinson is the site of the Pinson Mounds, the largest Middle Woodland period Indian mound group in the United States, and the Pinson Mounds State...
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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)
such as Ingomar Mound and Pinson Mounds on its western periphery, built large platform mounds. Archaeologist speculate the mounds were for feasting...
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has within its boundaries the well preserved prehistoric Shiloh Indian Mounds Site, which is also a National Historic Landmark. The site was inhabited...
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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...
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Adena culture (section Mounds)
Adena mounds numbered in the hundreds, but only a small number of the remains of the larger Adena earthen monuments still survive today. These mounds generally...
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Cahokia (redirect from Cahokia Mounds)
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...
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oldest great temple mound, built on a flat platform top; two burial mounds, and four smaller ceremonial mounds. As with other mound complexes, the people...
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ceremonial and village earthwork mounds around Lake Okeechobee similar to those of the Mississippian culture and earlier mound builders. Fort Center is in...
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Pinson Mounds Cane Island Site Crystal River Archaeological State Park Mound Builders Glenwood culture Cherokee McDonald and Woodward, Indian Mounds of...
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Nanih Waiya (redirect from Nanih Waiya Cave Mound (Neshoba County, Mississippi))
Pinson Mounds in Tennessee and Ingomar Mound in Mississippi. The dating was based on surface artifacts, as no archeological excavation of the mound has...
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The Ellis Mounds are a complex of Native American mounds near Marysville in Union County, Ohio, United States. These three mounds form an east-west line...
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Mounds Moundville Mummy Cave Nodena site Ocmulgee Mounds Old Stone Fort Orwell site Paquime Painted Bluff Parkin Park Pinson Mounds Plum Bayou Mounds...
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Mounds Moundville Mummy Cave Nodena site Ocmulgee Mounds Old Stone Fort Orwell site Paquime Painted Bluff Parkin Park Pinson Mounds Plum Bayou Mounds...
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conicals likely evolved into linear mounds. Bird mounds likely came next as modifying a linear mound to make a bird mound required only the addition of a...
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Serpent Mound and two nearby conical mounds. After completing his excavation and publishing his work, Putnam worked on restoring the mounds to their...
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the Mississippi River.[citation needed] Pinson Mounds, one of the largest Woodland period (c. 1-500CE) mound complexes in the United States, is located...
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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...
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bones would be gathered up, placed in a basket, and buried in a mound. These mounds were both for burials as well as religious ceremonies, as the Calusa...
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Mississippian culture (redirect from Mississippian mound builder)
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...
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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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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...
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Mounds Moundville Mummy Cave Nodena site Ocmulgee Mounds Old Stone Fort Orwell site Paquime Painted Bluff Parkin Park Pinson Mounds Plum Bayou Mounds...
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of multiple mounds, with several in Louisiana dated to 5600–5000 BP (3700 BC–3100 BC). Watson Brake is considered the oldest, multiple mound complex in...
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Natchez Trace Nathan Bedford Forrest Paris Landing Pickwick Landing Pinson Mounds Reelfoot Lake T. O. Fuller State forests Bledsoe Cedars of Lebanon Chickasaw...
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Mississippi and Ohio River valleys as well, adding effigy mounds, conical and ridge mounds, and other shapes. The Woodland period of North American pre-Columbian...
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Mounds Moundville Mummy Cave Nodena site Ocmulgee Mounds Old Stone Fort Orwell site Paquime Painted Bluff Parkin Park Pinson Mounds Plum Bayou Mounds...
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Mounds Moundville Mummy Cave Nodena site Ocmulgee Mounds Old Stone Fort Orwell site Paquime Painted Bluff Parkin Park Pinson Mounds Plum Bayou Mounds...
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