Virginia Mound Creek, a stream in Minnesota Mounds, Illinois, United States Mounds, Oklahoma, United States The Mound, a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, linking...
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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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Tumulus (redirect from Burial mounds)
tumulus (pl.: tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or (in Siberia and Central...
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with Mounds using a red color scheme and Almond Joy blue. Originally invented by candy maker Vincent Nitido of West Haven, Connecticut, Mounds was created...
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Blue Mounds, and is part of the Madison metropolitan area. Blue Mounds was named by French missionaries for the blueish hue of three nearby mounds. Blue...
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South America. The mounds sometimes have a diameter of 30 metres (98 ft). Most of the mounds are in well-drained areas. Termite mounds usually outlive the...
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radiocarbon dating has placed the origin of certain mounds as far back as 320 BCE. Effigy mounds were constructed in many Native American cultures. Scholars...
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variety of mounds, including flat-topped pyramids or cones known as platform mounds, rounded cones, and ridge or loaf-shaped mounds. Some mounds took on...
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Cahokia (redirect from Cahokia Mounds)
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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Serpent Mound and two nearby conical mounds. After completing his excavation and publishing his work, Putnam worked on restoring the mounds to their...
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