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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.
Serpent Mound crater, also known as the Serpent Mound Disturbance, [1] is an eroded meteorite impact crater in Ohio, United States. It lies largely in Adams County , with the northern part mostly in Highland County , except for a small northeast part in Pike County .
The Stubbs Earthworks (also known as Bigfoot Earthworks [2] and Warren County Serpent Mound) was a massive Ohio Hopewell culture (100 BCE to 500 CE) archaeological site located in Morrow in Warren County, Ohio.
The Ohio History Connection operates a statewide network of historical, archaeological and natural history sites. Admission is free for members. In some cases, the Ohio History Connection has contracted with other organizations for management (viz. Serpent Mound)
Material evidence also suggests that the Fort Ancient peoples introduced maize agriculture to Ohio, [2] and other evidence connects this culture to the Great Serpent Mound. [5] In 1999, an archaeological study by Brad Lepper and Tod A. Frolking used radiocarbon testing to show that the Alligator Effigy Mound in Granville also dates to the Fort ...
The Serpent Mound, the country's largest effigy mound, was created by the Fort Ancient culture. ... Bradley T. Lepper, The Ohio History Connection, Columbus, 2002.
At Ohio History Connection, Alligood works with full-time NAGPRA cataloger Stephanie Kline, a part-time NAGPRA assistant and a handful of unpaid interns, often students from Ohio State University ...
Researchers first considered the Serpent Mound in Adams County, Ohio to be an Adena mound. It is the largest effigy mound in the United States and one of Ohio's best-known landmarks. Scholars believe it may have been a more recent work of Fort Ancient people.