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    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...
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    Cahokia (redirect from Cahokia Mound)
    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...
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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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    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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    Cambridge University Press. pp. 88–93. ISBN 0-521-52066-5. "Mound 72". Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. Archived from the original on 2012-06-23...
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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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  • 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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    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...
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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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    Mississippi Aztalan Big Eddy Cahokia Monks Mound Mound 34 Mound 72 Ramey state Woodhenge Cloverdale Dickson Mounds Emerald Acropolis Emmons Cemetery Horseshoe...
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