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    The Man Mound is a precontact earthwork of a humanoid figure located in Greenfield, Sauk County, Wisconsin, east of the city of Baraboo. Constructed during...
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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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    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...
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    Tumulus (redirect from Burial mound)
    tumulus (pl.: tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or (in Siberia and Central...
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    Cahokia (redirect from Cahokia Mound)
    The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site /kəˈhoʊkiə/ (11 MS 2) is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (which existed c. 1050–1350 CE) directly...
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    man-made mounds, Kościuszko Mound, constructed in 1823, and Piłsudski's Mound, completed in 1937. These four make up Kraków's four memorial mounds. The...
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  • 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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    Monks Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the Americas and the largest pyramid north of Mesoamerica. The beginning of its construction dates...
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  • Wingspread Little White Schoolhouse Van Hise Rock Taliesen Garland House Man Mound This is a list of National Historic Landmarks in the U.S. state of Wisconsin...
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    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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    Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. This study of the prehistoric Mound Builders of North America was a landmark in American scientific research...
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    so great that a reasonable man would guard against it (even if the chance of the loss occurring was very small). Wagon Mound (No. 2) should not be confused...
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    is a United States national historical park with earthworks and burial mounds from the Hopewell culture, indigenous peoples who flourished from about...
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    concerned the standard of the reasonable man in breach of the duty of care. Overseas Tankship had a ship, the Wagon Mound, docked in Sydney Harbour in October...
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    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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    Miamisburg Mound is a conical Native American Mound in Miamisburg, Ohio. At 65 feet (20 m) tall and 800 feet (240 m) in circumference, it is the largest...
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    Waiya (alternately spelled Nunih Waya) (Choctaw: slanting mound) is an ancient platform mound in southern Winston County, Mississippi, constructed by indigenous...
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    The Chickasawba Mound, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 3M55, is an archaeological site in Blytheville, Arkansas. It encompasses the remains of...
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    Gamla Uppsala (redirect from Royal mounds)
    a comb and a hone. Most scholars agree that the mound was either raised for a woman or for a young man and a woman as the remains of a woman and boy were...
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    The Marble Arch Mound or Marble Arch Hill was a temporary, 25-metre-high (82 ft) artificial hill located next to Marble Arch in London, England. It had...
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    The Lion's Mound (French: Butte du Lion, lit. "Lion's Hillock/Knoll"; Dutch: Leeuw van Waterloo, lit. "Lion of Waterloo") is a large conical artificial...
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    An effigy mound is a raised pile of earth built in the shape of a stylized animal, symbol, religious figure, human, or other figure. The Effigy Moundbuilder...
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    Turtle Mound is a prehistoric archaeological site located 9 miles (14 km) south of New Smyrna Beach, Florida, on State Road A1A. On September 29, 1970...
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    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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    The Håga mound (Hågahögen) or King Björn's Mound (Kung Björns hög) is a large Nordic Bronze Age tumulus in the western outskirts of Uppsala, Sweden. It...
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    Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park (3 LN 42), formerly known as "Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park", also known as Knapp Mounds, Toltec Mounds or...
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  • certain stories related to a certain nearby mound, which is said to be haunted by a strange Native American man by day and a headless woman by night. The...
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    Newgrange (redirect from Newgrange Mound)
    Dowth, as well as other henges, burial mounds and standing stones. Newgrange consists of a large circular mound with an inner stone passageway and cruciform...
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  • 2009 Thorn, Cody (29 November 2013). "North Andrew avenges loss, claims 8-man title". St. Joseph News-Press. Retrieved 30 November 2013. Overbay, Steve...
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    The Criel Mound, also known as the South Charleston Mound, is a Native American burial mound located in South Charleston, West Virginia. It is one of the...
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