Red Mound is an unincorporated community in the Town of Wheatland, Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States. The post office was established in Red Mound...
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Blue Mound State Park is a state park in Wisconsin, United States, located atop the largest hill in the southern half of the state, near the village of...
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mounds have been identified by the Wisconsin Historical Society in the upper midwest. Native North American effigy mounds have been compared to the large-scale...
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Many pre-Columbian cultures in North America were collectively termed "Mound Builders", but the term has no formal meaning. It does not refer to specific...
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High Cliff State Park (redirect from High Cliff Mounds)
Wisconsin View of the cliff faces View of the outcrop ontop of the bluff Mound Mound builder (people) Earthwork (archaeology) List of burial mounds in...
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Silver Mound is a sandstone hill in Wisconsin where American Indians quarried quartzite for stone tools. Tools made from Silver Mound's quartzite have...
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Effigy Mounds Preserve (also known as The Indian Mounds Park or as the Maples Mounds Group) is a park operated by the city of Whitewater, Wisconsin. The...
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Wisconsin DNR". dnr.wisconsin.gov. Retrieved October 22, 2021. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (January 5, 2011). "Effigy Mounds of Devil's Lake"...
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the end of this period, Wisconsin was the heartland of the "Effigy Mound culture", which built thousands of animal-shaped mounds across the landscape. Later...
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in Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 533 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Red Mound, and Victory are located...
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Cahokia (redirect from Cahokia Mound)
Cahokia Mounds /kəˈhoʊkiə/ (11 MS 2) is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (which existed c. 1050–1350 CE) directly across the Mississippi...
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of the Mounds, a natural limestone cave located near Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, United States, is named for two nearby hills called the Blue Mounds. It is...
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Aztalan State Park (redirect from Aztalan State Park, Wisconsin)
000 m2)) west of the stockade and containing eight conical mounds, and presented it to the Wisconsin Archeological Society. Work for preservation continued...
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effigy mound culture dominated Southern Wisconsin during this time, building earthen burial mounds in the shapes of animals. Examples of effigy mounds still...
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Effigy Mounds" (PDF). Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Archived from the original (PDf) on March 5, 2022. Retrieved 2022-03-05. "Mangum Mound Natchez...
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Americans who inhabited Wisconsin built multiple groups of effigy mounds in what is now the Arboretum. Two groups of mounds, both located along McCaffrey...
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Wickliffe Mounds (15 BA 4) is a prehistoric, Mississippian culture archaeological site located in Ballard County, Kentucky, just outside the town of Wickliffe...
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out of all 72 Wisconsin counties. Menomonie Boyceville Colfax Downing Elk Mound Knapp Ridgeland Wheeler Colfax Dunn Eau Galle Elk Mound Grant Hay River...
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Mississippian culture (redirect from Mississippian mound builder)
regionally. It was known for building large, earthen platform mounds, and often other shaped mounds as well. It was composed of a series of urban settlements...
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southern Wisconsin, northeast Iowa, and small parts of Minnesota and Illinois. An exception is the Great Serpent Mound in southwestern Ohio. Effigy Mounds National...
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Lizard Mound State Park is a state park in the Town of Farmington, Washington County, Wisconsin near the city of West Bend. The park contains a significant...
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culture includes a mound from the Wakanda Mounds Group in Wakanda Park, along the western shore of Lake Menomin. Most of these mounds are thought to be...
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of the mounds. Radiocarbon samples from the excavation date the mounds' construction to approximately 480 BCE, making it one of the oldest mound groups...
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Spring Mound Site Revisited: Lecture". Localeben. Retrieved January 18, 2020. "Early history of Ozaukee County, Wisconsin". University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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megafauna. Many were reported to have been found in Native American burial mounds. Examples from 7 ft (2.1 m) to 20 ft (6.1 m) tall were reported in many...
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timber circles located roughly 850 metres (2,790 ft) to the west of Monks Mound at the Mississippian culture Cahokia archaeological site near Collinsville...
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Tollackson Mound Group, referred to as 47VE927, is an archeological site located in the town of Harmony, in Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States, that...
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Effigy mounds were built more often by ancient indigenous peoples located in the areas of the present-day states of Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin than in...
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" There were 52 mounds constructed around what is now called Taylor Lake. Most mounds were lost to agricultural development. One mound, shaped like a catfish...
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Robert A.; Leslie E. Eisenberg (2000). Indian Mounds of Wisconsin. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 193. ISBN 9780299168742. Dell'Orto,...
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