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  2. List of Adena culture sites - Wikipedia

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    Located atop a bluff off U.S. Route 52 near the community of Neville in Clermont County, Ohio. It is a conical mound measuring approximately 5 feet (1.5 m) high and 55 feet (17 m) in diameter at the base. Spruce Run Earthworks: Earthwork located in Delaware County, Ohio. David Stitt Mound: Sub-conical mound located near Chillicothe in Ross ...

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

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    An Early Marksville culture site located near Port Gibson in Claiborne County, Mississippi, on a bluff 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the Mississippi River, 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the mouth of the Big Black River. [7] The site has an extant burial mound, and may have possibly had two others in the past. The site is believed to have been occupied ...

  4. Portsmouth Earthworks - Wikipedia

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    The Portsmouth Earthworks are a large prehistoric mound complex constructed by the Native American Adena and Ohio Hopewell cultures of eastern North America (100 BCE to 500 CE). [2] The site was one of the largest earthwork ceremonial centers constructed by the Hopewell and is located at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers, in present ...

  5. Feurt Mounds and Village Site - Wikipedia

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    The three mounds are on the Scioto River, near the Ohio River confluence. [2]William C. Mills in 1917 described the topography, "The immediate location of the mounds and village site is a level plateau of less than five acres in extent, elevated a little more than forty feet above the bottom land into which it projects, promontory like, with steep and very abrupt banks."

  6. Fort Ancient (Lebanon, Ohio) - Wikipedia

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    The site is the largest prehistoric hilltop enclosure in the United States [2] with three and one-half miles (18,000 ft) of walls in a 100-acre (0.40 km 2) complex. Built by the Hopewell culture , who lived in the area from the 200 BC to AD 400, the site is situated on a wooded bluff 270 feet (82 m) above the Little Miami.

  7. Serpent Mound - Wikipedia

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    The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-feet-long (411 m), three-feet-high prehistoric effigy mound located in Peebles, Ohio. It was built on what is known as the Serpent Mound crater plateau, running along the Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio. The mound is the largest serpent effigy known in the world.

  8. List of World Heritage Sites in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The structure is 1,348 ft (411 m) long and up to 4 ft 11 in (1.5 m) tall. It is the world's largest preserved prehistoric mound of that type, and is representative of the mounds built by different cultures of the Eastern United States. The complex also includes three burial sites and some remains of habitation sites. [42]

  9. Paleo Crossing site - Wikipedia

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    Paleo Crossing site, also known as the Old Dague Farm site, [2] is an archaeological site near Sharon Center, Ohio in Medina County where Clovis artifacts dated to 10,980 BP ± 75 years Before Present were found. [3] The Cleveland Museum of Natural History conducted an excavation from 1990 to 1993. [4]