Mound 72 is a small ridgetop mound located roughly 850 meters (2,790 ft) to the south of Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois. Early...

series of smaller mounds. These mounds were reshaped and covered over to give Mound 72 its final ridge-top shape. Excavations near Mound 34 from 2002 to...

Monks Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the Americas and the largest pyramid north of Mesoamerica. The beginning of its construction dates...

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...

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...

Mound is the sole remaining Mississippian culture platform mound in St. Louis, Missouri, a city commonly referred to in its earlier years as "Mound City"...

Cambridge University Press. pp. 88–93. ISBN 0-521-52066-5. "Mound 72". Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. Archived from the original on 23 June 2012...

This is a list of notable burial mounds in the United States built by Native Americans. Burial mounds were built by many different cultural groups over...

Angel Mounds State Historic Site (12 VG 1), an expression of the Mississippian culture, is an archaeological site managed by the Indiana State Museum and...

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(disambiguation) Birdman burial, an elaborate elite personage burial from the Mound 72 archaeological site at Cahokia, Illinois, U.S. Birdman of the Coorong,...

Mausoleum of the 72 Martyrs, topped by the Statue of Liberty. Yellow Flower Mound Park. The 1980 film Magnificent 72 and the 2011 film 72 Heroes focus on...

planted together in mounds formed by hilling soil around the base of the plants each year; squash is typically planted between the mounds. The cornstalk serves...

excavations, although a copper sheath found next to chunkey stones at Cahokias Mound 72 may be an exception. pillbox hat – A cylindral shaped hat composed of unknown...

A platform mound is any earthwork or mound intended to support a structure or activity. It typically refers to a flat-topped mound, whose sides may be...

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Mound 34 is a small platform mound located roughly 400 metres (1,300 ft) to the east of Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois. Excavations...

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...

Wickliffe Mounds (15 BA 4) is a prehistoric, Mississippian culture archaeological site located in Ballard County, Kentucky, just outside the town of Wickliffe...

In 2003, archaeologist Brad Lepper suggested that the Alligator Effigy Mound in Granville, Ohio, represents the underwater panther. Lepper posits that...

archaeologists. This location was discovered near Mounds 72 and 96, directly to the south of Monks Mound. Several post holes of what may have been a ceremonial...

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lechworth Mounds. Letchworth Mounds Archaeological State Park is a 188.2 acre Florida State Park that preserves...

Biltmore Mound is a historical and archaeological site on the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. The Biltmore Mound is a platform mound which...

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Mississippi Aztalan Big Eddy Cahokia Monks Mound Mound 34 Mound 72 Ramey state Woodhenge Cloverdale Dickson Mounds Emerald Acropolis Emmons Cemetery Horseshoe...

that the villagers helped them erect a large wooden cross on the central mound. When de Soto determined to press on and visit the nearby tribe called the...

with a platform mound and plaza. Upon entering the village, de Soto was taken to meet the chief under a portico on top of the mound. Chapter VII-In which...

or was some mix of these, is not clear. Mississippian culture Toolesboro Mound Group Upper Mississippian culture Gibbon, Guy E. (1982) Oneota Studies....

sacrifices that were done in honour of Icaque, an Andean prehispanic goddess. Mound 72 at the Mississippian culture site of Cahokia, directly across the Mississippi...