May 09, 2018 · MOUND BUILDERS. Mound Builders were prehistoric American Indians, named for their practice of burying their dead in large mounds. Beginning about three thousand years ago, they built extensive earthworks from the Great Lakes down through the Mississippi River Valley and into the Gulf of Mexico region. These mounds, many of which survive today, …

A number of pre-Columbian cultures are collectively termed "Mound Builders".The term does not refer to a specific people or archaeological culture, but refers to the characteristic mound earthworks erected for an extended period of more than 5,000 years. The "Mound Builder" cultures span the period of roughly 3500 BCE (the construction of Watson Brake) to the 16th …

The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site / k ə ˈ h oʊ k i ə / is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (which existed c. 1050–1350 CE) directly across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis, Missouri.This historic park lies in south-western Illinois between East St. Louis and Collinsville.At its apex around 1100 CE, the city covered about 6 square miles (16 km 2) and ...

The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-foot-long (411 m), three-foot-high prehistoric effigy mound located in Peebles, Ohio.The mound itself resides on the Serpent Mound crater plateau, running along the Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio.The mound is the largest serpent effigy in the world. The Serpent Mound is believed to have been built by the Adena peoples around …

Mound Builders of Mississippi ... From this evidence, the history of the site was reconstructed. The Winterville museum exhibits a large collection of archeological artifacts, including decorated pottery vessels, stone tools, and ornaments from Winterville and other regional sites. The site is located on State Hwy 1, about six miles north of ...

Feb 06, 2019 · The Mississippian culture is what archaeologists call the pre-Columbian horticulturalists who lived in the midwestern and southeastern United States between about AD 1000-1550. Mississippian sites have been identified within the river valleys of nearly a third of what is today the United States, including an area centered in Illinois but found as far south as the …

Mound-building termites are a group of termite species that live in mounds. These termites live in Africa, ... Sometimes other colonies, of the same or different species, occupy a mound after the original builders' deaths. Mound structure. The structure of the mounds can be very complicated. Inside the mound is an extensive system of tunnels ...

Aug 21, 2018 · Serpent Mound is located on a high plateau overlooking Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio, about 73 miles east of Cincinnati. It’s on the site of an ancient meteor impact dating to around ...

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