mound through his discovery of an ash bed containing many prehistoric artifacts, north of the conical mound. After the excavation, the conical mound was...
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Adena culture (section Mounds)
extreme western Pennsylvania. The Adena culture was named for the large mound on Thomas Worthington's early 19th-century estate located near Chillicothe...
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or conical mounds are also numerous, with thousands of them scattered across the American Midwest, some over 24 m (80 ft) tall. These conical mounds appear...
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up to the large conical mound nearby, and he asserted that an intaglio was always connected with a conical mound, with the conical mound used as a lookout...
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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...
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A molehill (or mole-hill, mole mound) is a conical mound of loose soil raised by small burrowing mammals, including moles...
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Hopewell tradition (category Mound Builders)
group of seven burial mounds on a bluff overlooking the Iowa River near its confluence with the Mississippi River. The conical mounds were constructed between...
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Tumulus (redirect from Burial mound)
Common forms include conical mounds, ridge-top mounds, platform mounds, and animal effigy mounds, but there are many variations. Mound building in the US...
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pre-Columbian earthwork north of Mexico. This site had numerous mounds, some with conical or ridge tops, as well as palisaded stockades protecting the large...
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An ice volcano is a conical mound of ice formed over a terrestrial lake via the eruption of water and slush through an ice shelf. The process is wave-driven...
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