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Mero Mound Group or Diamond Bluff Site is an archeological site near Diamond Bluff, Wisconsin, in Pierce County, Wisconsin. It consists of at least two village sites surrounded by hundreds of mounds, including three effigy mounds. All were constructed from around 1000 AD to 1300 AD. [3] It is also known as 47-Pi-2.
Lapham's map of the mounds around the Panther Intaglio as they stood in 1850. The Panther Intaglio is the one labeled "The Excavation." [5] The mound in 2020. Effigy mounds were built in Wisconsin from 700 to 1200 A.D., [2] [6] so the panther effigy was dug in that interval.
The mounds were then built over them like grave markers. The custom of building effigy burial mounds died out about 1000 years ago; it was a custom unique to the general area. Little else is known about the Mound Builders. Even Indians who lived in Wisconsin when the first white men arrived didn't know why, or by whom, the mounds had been built ...
About 20,000 mounds were built in what is now Wisconsin from around 500 B.C. to around 1100 A.D. Only about 4,000 remain today because of the inconsideration of developers over the last 200 years.
The mound is one of five anthropomorphic effigy mounds known to exist in North America, all of which were found in Wisconsin, and is the only one that still stands. The other mounds included the La Valle Man Mound, also in Sauk County, and the Eagle Township Man Mound and Twin Man Mounds in neighboring Richland County. A small number of other ...
The cave is located 20 miles west of Madison, off U.S. Highways 18/151 in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin. Since its opening in 1940, the cave has hosted millions of tourists. [4]
The Edgewood College Mound Group Archaeological District is a group of Native American mounds on the campus of Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin.The group includes two areas containing a total of 11-12 mounds; while there were once fifteen mounds at the site, the remainder have been destroyed by agriculture and construction.
Conical burial mounds, like the one in Lake Park, started being built in Wisconsin around 500 B.C. And effigy mounds depicting people, animals or spirits were built from about 700 A.D. to around 1100.