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  2. Mound Builders - Wikipedia

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    Monks Mound, built c. 950–1100 CE and located at the Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near Collinsville, Illinois, is the largest pre-Columbian earthwork in America north of Mesoamerica.

  3. List of Mississippian sites - Wikipedia

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    A map showing approximate areas of various Mississippian and related cultures (c. 800-1500 CE) This is a list of Mississippian sites. The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, inland-Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally. [1]

  4. Batesville Mounds - Wikipedia

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    The mound builders were a variety of pre-Columbian cultures who inhabited the areas of the Great Lakes, the Ohio River Valley, and the Mississippi River valley. Rather than the wigwam of much of the plains peoples, or the pueblo culture of the American southwest, the mound builders created giant earthwork communities. Thousands of mounds have ...

  5. Cahokia - Wikipedia

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    Monks Mound is the largest structure and central focus of the city: a massive platform mound with four terraces, 10 stories tall, it is the largest man-made earthen mound north of Mexico. Facing south, it is 100 ft (30 m) high, 951 ft (290 m) long, 836 ft (255 m) wide and covers 13.8 acres (5.6 ha). [ 108 ]

  6. List of burial mounds in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Castalian Springs Mound 2: Castalian Springs Mound Site in Sumner County, Tennessee: 1100 to 1450 CE Middle Mississippian culture: Located on the eastern edge of a plaza, a 120 feet (37 m) in diameter 8 feet (2.4 m) tall mound was found to contain over a hundred burials when excavated by William E. Myer in the early 1890s. [11] Craig Mound

  7. Archaeologists Dug Up a Royal Grave—and Found a Secret ...

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    Located in the Danube plain, experts came across a 213-foot-diamter burial mound that was likely once 20 feet high—a size classified as a princely grave mound for the Celts, reserved for high ...

  8. Mississippi Mound Trail - Wikipedia

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    The Mississippi Mound Trail is a driving tour of 33 sites adjoining U.S. Route 61 where indigenous peoples of the Mississippi Delta built earthworks. [1] The mounds were primarily built between 500 and 1500 AD, [2] but are representative of a variety of cultures known as the Mound Builders. Each site has a historical marker and is accessible by ...

  9. Moundbuilders settles Octagon Earthworks lawsuit; clears way ...

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    The settlement between Moundbuilders Country Club and Ohio History Connection clears way for public access to Newark Earthworks’ Octagon Mounds.