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    The Owl Creek Mounds are a Native American Ceremonial Complex located in Mississippi's Tombigbee National Forest. The mounds are believed to have been...
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  • pebbles. The pebbles are made of chert and are black or white in color. The Owl Creek Formation is a geologic formation ranging from Tennessee to Mississippi...
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    the mounds were in circulation, typically involving the mounds being built by a race of giants. A New York Times article from 1897 described a mound in...
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    are located in Ackerman. The forest contains the Owl Creek Mounds, which include five platform mounds built between 1100 and 1200 CE. List of national...
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     1325–1375 CE. Etowah has three main platform mounds and three lesser mounds. The Temple Mound, Mound A, is 63 feet (19 m) high, taller than a six-story...
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    snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus), also known as the polar owl, the white owl and the Arctic owl, is a large, white owl of the true owl family. Snowy owls are...
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    Roost 232.4 Bynum Mounds 261.8 Chickasaw Village Site Milepost 266 Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center 269.4 Old Trace 286.7 Pharr Mounds 327.3 Colbert Ferry...
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    burial mound. The people built rectangular wooden buildings to house certain religious ceremonies on the top of the platform mounds. The mounds at Ocmulgee...
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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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    on the mound seem to have been added to stop slumping of the enormous mound. Although the mounds were primarily meant as substructure mounds for buildings...
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