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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Mississippian culture (redirect from Mississippian mound builder)
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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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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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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Second Guangzhou Uprising (redirect from Yellow Flower Mound revolt)
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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excavations, although a copper sheath found next to chunkey stones at Cahokias Mound 72 may be an exception. pillbox hat – A cylindral shaped hat composed of unknown...
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