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Mound City station, also known as the Mound City Museum, is a historic train station located at Mound City, Holt County, Missouri. It was built in 1921 by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and is a simple one-story, hollow tile and red brick building measuring 100 feet by 25 feet. It sits on a concrete foundation and has a gable roof ...
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]
The archeological site was listed as "Spikebuck Town Mound and Village Site" on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1] In 2000, the portion of the site containing the mound was acquired by Clay County, which is protecting it. [3] The county developed an overlook sitting area near the mound. (See image).
The mound was about 30 metres (98 ft) in diameter and 1 metre (3.3 ft) in height before this excavation. The fill used to construct the mound was sterile clay, midden deposits, and limestone slabs, and under the mound the WPA excavators found a pre-existing village midden. Because the mound fill and midden under it contained the same pottery ...
The Kolomoki Mounds is one of the largest and earliest Woodland period earthwork mound complexes in the Southeastern United States [3] and is the largest in Georgia. Constructed from 350 to 600, the mound complex is located in southwest Georgia, in present-day Early County near the Chattahoochee River .
LSU Campus Mound The LSU Campus Mounds or LSU Indian Mounds are two Native American mounds of the Archaic Period , on the campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge , Louisiana . Construction on the 20-foot-tall (6.1 m) mounds began more than 11,000 years ago, [ 2 ] and may have continued until 5,000 years ago.
Mound C at Etowah has been found to have more than 100 intrusive burials into the final layer of the mound, with many grave goods added, such as Mississippian copper plates (Etowah plates), monolithic stone axes, ceremonial pottery and carved whelk shell gorgets. Also interred in this mound was a paired set of white marble Mississippian stone ...