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    Rockwell Mound has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1987. The mound is located in Rockwell Park, on North Orange Street in...
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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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    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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    Havana Hopewell culture (category Mounds in Illinois)
    enclosure. Albany Mounds State Historic Site Mound House (Greene County, Illinois) Naples Mound 8 Rockwell Mound Sinnissippi Mounds Hopewell tradition...
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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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    Everett Knoll Complex, also known as Everett Mound is a Hopewell site in Northeast Ohio near the unincorporated community of Everett within Cuyahoga Valley...
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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...
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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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    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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    Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. This study of the prehistoric Mound Builders of North America was a landmark in American scientific research...
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    is a United States national historical park with earthworks and burial mounds from the Hopewell culture, indigenous peoples who flourished from about...
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    in the Black Hawk Wars until at least his three-hour speech on the Rockwell Mound while he was running for the US Senate in 1858. Stephen Douglas had...
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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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    begun during the Late and Terminal Archaic periods, including extensive mound-building, regional distinctive burial complexes, the trade of exotic goods...
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    Esarey. National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Rockwell Mound. National Park Service, 1987-12-12, 5. Fairchilde, Jerry D. National...
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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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    Naples Archeological District Naples Mound 8 Ogden-Fettie Site Rockwell Mound Sinnissippi Mounds Toolesboro Mound Group Kansas City Hopewell Cloverdale...
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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 Bynum Mound and Village Site (22CS501) is a Middle Woodland period archaeological site located near Houston in Chickasaw County, Mississippi. The...
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    Superior, and shells from the Gulf Coast. The construction of ceremonial mounds was an important feature of the Laurel complex, as it was for the Point...
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    drink rituals. Many examples of shell cups found in Mississippian culture mounds are engraved with S.E.C.C. imagery. A few examples portray what is theorized...
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    Marietta Earthworks (category Mounds in Ohio)
    additional platform mounds, and the Conus burial mound and its accompanying ditch and embankment. The Capitolium is a truncated pyramidal mound with three ramps...
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    Fort Ancient (Lebanon, Ohio) (category Mounds in Ohio)
    corner of the complex, four circular stone-covered mounds are arranged in a square. The southwest mound of the four is interpreted to have functioned as...
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    The Naples Mound 8 (also Naples-Russel Mound 8 or Illinois Archaeological Survey #PK 335) is a Havana Hopewell culture mound site located in Pike County...
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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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    The Orators Mound is a Native American mound in the western part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Although its cultural affiliation is disputed, it is an important...
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  • Indian Mound Reserve is a public country park near the village of Cedarville, Ohio, United States. Named for two different earthworks within its bounds...
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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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    Indian Mounds Regional Park is a public park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, featuring six burial mounds overlooking the Mississippi River. The...
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    Swift Creek culture was the Swift Creek mound site, which was located in Bibb County, Georgia. The Leake Mounds are another significant Swift Creek Culture...
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