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Two brothers, Chata and Chicksah. After travelling for a mind-bogglingly long time, they finally came to a place where the pole stood upright. In this place, they laid to rest the bones of their ancestors, which they had carried in buffalo sacks from the original land in the west. The earthwork mound developed from that great burial. After the ...
The earthwork mound of Nanih Waiya is about 25 feet (7.6 m) tall, 140 feet (43 m) wide, and 220 feet (67 m) long. Evidence suggests it was originally a larger platform mound, which has eroded into the present shape. At one time, it was bounded on three sides by a circular earthwork enclosure about ten feet tall, which encompassed one square mile.
Letchworth Mounds Archaeological State Park (8LE337) is a 188.2 acre [1] Florida State Park that preserves the state's tallest prehistoric, Native American ceremonial earthwork mound, which is 46 feet (14 m) high. It is estimated to have been built 1100 to 1800 years ago. This is one of three major surviving mound complexes in the Florida ...
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A mound diagram of the platform mound showing the multiple layers of mound construction, mound structures such as temples or mortuaries, ramps with log stairs, and prior structures under later layers, multiple terraces, and intrusive burials. The namesake cultural trait of the Mound Builders was the building of mounds and other earthworks.
Craig Mound has been called "an American King Tut's Tomb". George C. Davis Mound C: Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site, Cherokee County, Texas: 800–1200 CE Caddoan Mississippian culture Mound C, the northernmost mound of the three at the site, it was used as a ceremonial burial mound, not for elite residences or temples like the other two. [12]
It was corrected to Hopewell Mound Group. Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks received national attention Sunday. "CBS News Sunday Morning" featured the local sites on its Jan. 21 broadcast.
An example of a conical mound is the Miamisburg Mound in central Ohio, which has been estimated to have been built by people of the Adena culture in the time range of 800 BC to 100 AD. [22] The American Plains also hold temple mounds, or platform mounds , which are giant pyramid-shaped mounds with flat tops that once held temples made of wood.