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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Serpent Mounds Park is a historical place located near Keene, Ontario, Canada. Serpent Mounds operated as a provincial park, established in 1955 through...
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mounds, which are mounds shaped like animals (real or imaginary) or people. Possibly the most famous of these effigy mounds is Serpent Mound. Located in Ohio...
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massive earthworks of the Mississippi Valley, like Grave Creek Mound and the Great Serpent Mound, were not built by the ancestors of Native Americans, as is...
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agriculture to Ohio, and other evidence connects this culture to the Great Serpent Mound. In 1999, an archaeological study by Brad Lepper and Tod A. Frolking...
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Strava art, virtual geoglyphs. Petroglyph Petrosomatoglyph Intaglio (burial mound) Battalion Park Crop circle New Technologies for Archaeology: Multidisciplinary...
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Virginia. 1000–1780: Plains Village period on Great Plains, from North Dakota to Texas 1070: Great Serpent Mound built in Ohio. 1100: Pueblo Bonito in Chaco...
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Park Rock Eagle Effigy Mound Rock Hawk Effigy Mound Serpent Mound "Effigy Moundbuilders - Effigy Mounds National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)"...
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archeological wonders, the Serpent Mound at the Serpent Mound State Memorial in Locust Grove. Serpent Mound lends its name to the Serpent Mound crater, the eroded...
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Some effigy mounds were constructed in the shapes or outlines of culturally significant animals. The most famous effigy mound, Serpent Mound in southern...
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culture is the Great Serpent Mound, located in Adams County, Ohio. Around 100 BC, the Adena evolved into the Hopewell people, who were also mound builders....
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the largest, was based in present-day Illinois. The construction of Monks Mound at Cahokia was begun in 900–950. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the Bantu expansion...
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Great Serpent Mound in southwestern Ohio. Effigy Mounds National Monument takes in the western edge of the effigy region. The North Unit (67 mounds)...
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Shawnee (section Great Comet of 1811 and Tekoomsē)
built mounds as part of their social, political and religious system. Among their monuments were earthwork effigy mounds, such as Serpent Mound in present-day...
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that the serpent god controlled then hide out of fear. The Mound Builders associated great mystical value to the serpent, as the Serpent Mound demonstrates...
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The Great Serpent Mound, a serpent-shaped effigy mound of the Fort Ancient culture, is located within Bratton Township, along with much of the Serpent Mound...
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especially in the Southeastern Woodlands and Great Lakes. Muscogee Creek traditions include a Horned Serpent and a Tie-Snake, estakwvnayv in the Muscogee...
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Newark Earthworks (redirect from Great Circle Mound)
the Great Circle, the wall of which can be seen in the background. Man on top of the central mound at the Great Circle in 2024 Tourists at Great Circle...
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most of Western and Northern Europe, notably at Carnac, France. The large mound tomb at Newgrange, Ireland, dating to around 3200 BC, has its entrance marked...
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1980 CE) Chavín de Huántar Mesa Verde cliff dwellings Yaxchilán Great Serpent Mound Templo Mayor (Main Temple) Ruler's feather headdress (probably of...
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Alan C. (2014). "A new multistage construction chronology for the Great Serpent Mound, USA". Journal of Archaeological Science. 50: 117–125. Bibcode:2014JArSc...
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end, and 775 feet (236 m) wide. This makes Monks Mound roughly the same size at its base as the Great Pyramid of Giza (13.1 acres / 5.3 hectares). The...
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Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (section Great Serpent)
Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park Mangum Mound Site Moundville Archaeological Site Ocmulgee National Monument Serpent Mound Spiro Mounds Town Creek...
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History of Ohio (redirect from Great Depression in Ohio)
also built mounds, including some effigy mounds. Researchers first considered the Serpent Mound in Adams County, Ohio to be an Adena mound. It is the...
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Mound Cemetery in Marietta, Ohio, is a historic cemetery developed around the base of a prehistoric Adena burial mound known as the Great Mound or Conus...
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In the 1930s during the Great Depression, treasure hunters bought the rights to tunnel into Craig Mound—the second-largest mound on the site—to mine it...
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Cahokia (redirect from Cahokia Mound)
1000 CE. Today, the Cahokia Mounds are considered to be the largest and most complex archaeological site north of the great pre-Columbian cities in Mexico...
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stones, indigenous stacked stone serpent effigy walls, effigies of the sun, hundreds of rock mound and earthen mound burial cairns, and petroglyph ceremonial...
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Xiuhcoatl (category Legendary serpents)
Chichen Itza, with four fire serpents encircling the rim. The archaeological site of Tula has warrior columns on Mound B that bear mirrors on their backs...
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was located on top of a low platform mound. The retainers were ritually strangled at the temple. Tattooed Serpent was buried in a trench inside the temple...
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