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	Mound Builders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mound Builders were Archaic and Woodland Pre-Columbian cultures, who created various styles of earthen mounds for both burial and ceremonial purposes.
		With religion, cities, and government the mound builders represent the earliest known civilizations in the Western Hemisphere.
		A good example of an effigy mound is the Serpent Mound, which is 5 feet tall, 20 wide, and over 1330 feet long in the shape of a serpent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mound_Builders (298 words)

	MOUND-BUILDERS - LoveToKnow Article on MOUND-BUILDERS
		The remark~~ able mounds, which have given occasion for the name, are fortified enclosures and tumuli of the most varied appearance, round, conical, or in the shape of animals.
		In Wisconsin the most interesting mounds are the effigy moundsearthen forms of mammals, birds and reptilesusually in groups and of gigantic size.
		It seems most probable that the purpose of these effigy mounds are totemic, and that they were objects of worship as guardians of the villages.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MO/MOUND_BUILDERS.htm (545 words)

	Mound Builders - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
		Mound Builders.—America is called the New World because of its discovery by Europeans, but ethnologists and antiquarians claim that it is also an old world and had an ancient civilization, proved by the prehistoric works and remains, left by a people called mound builders, who once inhabited the western continent.
		The place where the works of the mound builders are most numerous are the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and in Tennessee.
		These mounds resemble the wild animals and birds formerly abounding in the territory, and are generally located on hill tops, overlooking the streams or lakes.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1912/m/mound_builders.html (1573 words)

	The Mound Builders Essay -- National Register of Historic Places Indian Mounds of Mississippi Travel Itinerary
		Mounds continued to be built sporadically for another 1800 years, or until around 1700 A.D. Archeologists, the scientist who study the evidence of past human lifeways, classify moundbuilding Indians of the Southeast into three major chronological/cultural divisions: the Archaic, the Woodland, and the Mississippian traditions.
		Mound construction was once again in decline by the time the first Europeans came to this region in the 1500s.
		Mississippian platform mounds range in height from eight to almost 60 feet and are from 60 to as much as 770 feet in width at the base.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/mounds/builders.htm (612 words)

	Mound Builders
		Archaeologists are unsure as to the purpose of this mound.
		The Serpent Mound twists to a length of 411 m (1348 ft) near the town of Peebles in southern Ohio.
		It is likely that the mounds were built over a span of several thousand years by groups of people who were economically similar, probably farmers living in permanent villages.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/moundbuilders.htm (382 words)

	Mound Builders
		The mounds of Union County are generally attributed to the Culture of the Hopewell.
		Mound City national park near Chillicothe Ohio is an excellent example of the Hopewell culture.
		This mound is circular mound in a cultivated field and cultivation has reduced it until its present measurements are about 29 feet in diameter and three feet in height.
	www.union-county.lib.in.us /mound_builders.htm (1694 words)

	The Mound Builders,Indian Burial Mounds of Burlington Wisconsin, Mound Builders, Giants, Giant Races, The Mound Builders by Mary Sutherland, f MU, Burlington Wisconsin, Burlington UFO and Paranormal Center
		Mounds of Wisconsin - Mound Builders of Wisconsin - Effigy Mounds - Conical Mounds- Ceremonial Mounds -
		Serpent Mound in Ohio as it seems to represent a serpent, with mouth open, in the act of swallowing its prey; the series forming a sort of serpentine row.
		At the north or upper end of the series, are four oblong mounds; one with a divided extremity, or horns, as shown in the drawing.
	www.burlingtonnews.net /centerindians12.html?1113816299406 (1231 words)

	Mound Builders on Encyclopedia.com
		MOUND BUILDERS [Mound Builders] in North American archaeology, name given to those people who built mounds in a large area from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mts.
		The term "Mound Builders" arose when the origin of the monuments was considered mysterious, most European Americans assuming that the Native Americans were too uncivilized for this accomplishment.
		The earliest mounds in the United States have been found at Watson Brake near Monroe, La.; they were built in the late 4th millennium BC The purpose of these 11 mounds is unclear.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/moundb1ui.asp (1097 words)

	Mounds & Mound Builders
		Stephen B. Preston, "An Introduction to the Mound Builders and the Criel Mound, `D' Street, South Charleston," in J. Alfred Poe and Albert Giles, "The History of South Charleston, West Virginia, Volume I," (hereafter Preston, "Mound Builders"), 16, 18.
		The Criel Mound in South Charleston is the largest of approximately fifty conical type mounds of the Adena culture in an area west of Charleston extending to Institute.
		The mound and two forts were the essential features of an Adena village in the shape of a triangle.
	www.wvculture.org /history/mounds.html (996 words)

	The Delaware, Oh Web Page - Delaware's History - The Mound Builders
		In nearly every township are to be found mounds and fortifications of various descriptions, which, though fast becoming obliterated, still remain to attest the activity of a people whose character and history are shrouded in the oblivion of the past.
		The largest mound in the State, at Miamisburg, is sixty-eight feet in height and 800 feet in circumference at the base.
		The larger part of the mounds within the county are found in the southern portion along the Olentangy River.
	www.delaware.org /history/moundbuilders.htm (921 words)

	Who were the Mound-Builders?
		This site demonstrates that the idea of mound culture developement being dependant on agricultural developement is an inaccurate one as the builders of this complex were hunter/gatherer cultures according to present studies on the site.
		The hight of American Romanticism with the Mound Cultures peaked in the 19th century and it is at this time that Congress, in deciding on grants to the Bureau of Ethnology (today known as the Smithsonian Institute) decided that the question of who had built the mounds should be settled once and for all.
		Mound building is believed to have begun as a burial practice, the mound serving as both tombstone, tomb and offering site to the deceased.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/memorial/68/mound1.html (1028 words)

	Encyclopedia of North American Indians - - Mound Builders
		The term mound builders arose in the eighteenth century to denote the makers of the prominent mounds and massive earthworks found scattered over lands west of the Appalachians.
		Individual mounds and sets of associated mounds built in the millennia that followed are distributed in a manner suggestive of a similar connection with distinct communities inhabiting a particular territory over many generations.
		One variant of the typical circular, dome-shaped burial mound is the earthwork built in the outline of an animal.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_023700_moundbuilder.htm (1678 words)

	Mound Builders
		Every time the Mound Builders buried a monk and leaders it was a custom to kill his loved ones and bury them with him.
		The Mound Builders were famous for their mound building abilities as suggested by their name.
		The early mound builders hunted bear, deer, and small animals only.
	www.up140.jacksn.k12.il.us /Wright/seventh/tribes/Mound.htm (685 words)

	Memphis Archaeological and Geological SocietyArchaeologyThe Mound Builders
		But to some, the mounds were the work of a vanished race which had worked with incredible persistence to erect them over the course of thousands of years and then had disappeared from the face of North America.
		To the south, in the valley of the Ohio River, the customary shape of the mounds was conical and their height might be anything from a few yards to 80 or 90 feet.
		The greatest concentration of mounds lay in the heart of the continent: Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri.
	www.memphisgeology.org /a_mound.html (669 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: American History (1994): Chapter One: Mound builders and Pueblos(2/12)
		At the center of the city stood a huge earthen mound, flatted at the top, which was 30 meters high and 37 hectares at the base.
		mounds in what is now the United States are often called the Adenans.
		They began constructing earthen burial sites and fortifications around 600 B.C. Some mounds from that era are in the shape of birds or serpents, andprobably served religious purposes not yet fully understood.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/H/1994/ch1_p2.htm (366 words)

	Paranormal Encounter Ancient Myths "The Mound People"
		The average height of these unknown builders of the mounds were approximately 5 feet tall.
		Eventually, the builders of the mounds intermixed with native North Americans.
		The builders of the mounds (the Mound People) existed around 7,600 years ago and began mound building around 6,300 years ago.
	www.otherplane.com /am/ammounds.htm (209 words)

	Indian Artifacts Page
		One mound in central Ohio grew in this way over a period of several hundred years and when it was excavated, it revealed both early and late Adena burial practices.
		A mound of earth covered each burial to mark it and to protect it from predators.
		Other burials were made either at the edge of the original mound or on top of it.
	rol.freenet.columbus.oh.us /indian.html (407 words)

	Minnesota Conservation Volunteer: Indian Mounds: Minnesota DNR
		Mounds are usually found in groups ranging from two to more than 200.
		Mounds are cemeteries and should be respected as such.
		Indian Mounds Park in St. Paul has a complex of large mounds on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and the city skyline.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /volunteer/marapr03/mpmounds.html (429 words)

	The Mound Builders
		The Toltec Mounds is a group of earthworks, in the lower Mississippi Valley, constructed by the Indians that lived in the region durring the Middle Ages.
		She was the owner of the Toltec Mounds State Park from 1857 to 1900, and thought the mounds had been built by the Toltecs of Mexico.
		More often, several mounds were arranged around a rectangular plaza, with the village at its edges.
	asms.k12.ar.us /armem/hopper/Builders.htm (697 words)

	Effigy Mound Builders in Wisconsin. History of Wisconsin Dells
		Archaeologists are uncertain what happened to the effigy builders, but surmise they were assimilated into another culture, or simply abandoned the effigy mound phase of their development.
		There are conical and linear mounds as well as effigies of two 100-foot long bears, a panther with a tail as long as a football field and an eagle with a 200 foot wingspan.
		There were at one time literally hundreds of mounds constructed in the Dells area between approximately 300 and 1400 AD, which is only a small portion of the thousands of earthworks constructed in Wisconsin long before Christopher Columbus initiated the European settlement of the Americas.
	www.dellschamber.com /history/effigymoundbuilders.htm (303 words)

	OHS Places/Miamisburg Mound
		The Miamisburg Mound is the largest conical burial mound in the state of Ohio and possibly in the eastern U. Archaeological investigations of the surrounding area suggest that it was constructed by the prehistoric Adena Indians (800 BC - AD 100).
		Miamisburg Mound is on Mound Avenue, one mile south of exit 44 - State Route 725 - and three miles west of exit 42 off I-75, in Montgomery County.
		Built on a 100-foot-high bluff, the mound measures 877 feet in circumference.
	www.ohiohistory.org /places/miamisbg (126 words)

	Mound-builders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chicks do not have an egg tooth: they use their powerful claws to break out of the egg, and then tunnel their way up to the surface of the mound, lying on their backs and scratching at the sand and vegetable matter.
		They hatch fully feathered, active, and ready to lead an independent existence: there is no parental care apart from the nest itself; chicks simply wander away and fend for themselves.
		Many are shy, solitary, and inconspicuous, others live in colonies of many thousands of birds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mound-builders (417 words)

	Mound Builders
		Most of these mounds were built in 700 B.C.E. and A.D. Some of the Mound Builders food were fish, deer, turkey, bears, and squirrels, peanuts, acorns, and walnuts.
		The mound builders were the first civilization that we studied.
		The Adena were a type of mound builders.
	home.san.rr.com /neopetz/Mound_builders.html (186 words)

	Adena Indian Artifacts - Popeye Birdstone of Ohio
		The Mound Builders lived over a wide range from the Atlantic, the Midwest and the Ohio Valley to the Mississippi Valley.
		The term "mound builders" refers to several cultures that span a period of about 20 centuries.
		Other cultures extended the Mound Builders to about 1300 A.D. The Adena built mounds generally ranging in size from 20 to 300 feet in diameter.
	www.geocities.com /NapaValley/Vineyard/4103/page2.html (997 words)

	JS Online: Dig may shed light on mound-builders
		There was a general belief among archaeologists at the time that the builders didn't live near mounds because the mounds were considered sacred.
		Nitschke Mounds County Park is northeast of the intersection of Highway E and the Wild Goose State Trail.
		Mounds with long tails, such as panthers and turtles, appear to be related to water spirits.
	www.jsonline.com /news/ozwash/oct04/264933.asp (812 words)

	Michigan's mysterious Indian mounds
		Some archaeologists believe, based on uncovered artifacts, that the mound builders had entered the bronze age, had a high level of intelligence and traded with the Aztecs and Mayans.
		Even the native Indians claimed not to know who the mound builders were.
		In Indian mounds, in forts or enclosures, in the old pits and on ancient camping sites we find many a relic for which the archaeologist had no classificaiton, and the use of which he is ignorant.
	info.detnews.com /history/story/index.cfm?id=167&category=life (1484 words)

	Sacred Symbols of Mu: Chapter VIII. The Mound Builders Of North America
		While the Mound Builders show no cause for their apparent sudden disappearance the Khymers do, for it is geologically shown that the Khymers were destroyed by a flood, a cataclysmic wave having rolled up the Meikong River and surrounding Khymer country.
		This diagram of the American Mound Builders is the only one I have come across so far that fully carries out the writings about this phase of the Sun, which are found in the Books of the Golden Age, and thus showing the excellence of the scientific knowledge of the Mound Builders of America.
		That was among the Mound Builders' remains taken from one of their burial grounds.
	www.sacred-texts.com /atl/ssm/ssm11.htm (5801 words)

	Mormons, Mastodons and Mound-Builders
		On the subject of the Mound Builders, their chief authority is Baldwin's "Ancient America," a work published in 1871, and before the more critical study of the works of this people had been made.
		The superlative adjective "oldest" implies that there were Mound Builders more recent, and this opinion is more in harmony with the Book of Mormon, which seems to designate very plainly the territory of the United States as a part of both Jaredite and Nephite dominions....
		But all Latter-day Saints do not, evidently, agree that the Jaredites, exclusively, were the Mound Builders, and some seem disposed to give credit for some of the mounds built to the Nephites.
	solomonspalding.com /SRP/saga2/sagawt0b.htm (3069 words)

	Mound Builders
		The Mound Builders lived during 1000 A.D. The mounds are found in almost all the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio River Systems.
		Some of the mounds were built in the lower Mississippi at about the time of Columbus.
		North America's mounds were of many shapes and must have been used in several different ways.
	www.viking.no /e/info-sheets/usa/mounds.htm (452 words)

	Amazon.com: Mound Builders: Edgar Cayce's Forgotten Record of Ancient America: Books: Gregory L. Little,John Van Auken,Lora Little
		Mound Builders is truly a compelling, comprehensive look at the archaeological and genetic evidence from ancient America and the first genuine analysis of Cayce’s readings on history.
		Mound Builders also shows how evidence essentially confirms that a series of migrations to America from Semitic lands began in 3000 B.C. This evidence is compared to Mormon ideas.
		In addition, Mound Builders shows how several mound sites were built in accordance with Plato’s descriptions of Atlantis and how numerous mound complexes were arranged to reflect the Belt of Orion.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0940829363?v=glance (2200 words)

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