This is the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology map showing the general distribution of mound sites they had identified in the eastern half of the USA by the late 1800s. The red dots indicate areas where mounds, sometimes hundreds, were found. However, they typically then looked only at places that were easily visited: by roads, railways, and rivers. For just one simple example, the entire Gulf coast of Florida should be solid red. Another example: the mountains of NE Alabama has hundreds to a thousand or more stone mounds that were not found until the 2000s.
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Ancient American Vol. 10, Issue 64: An Egyptian Presence in B.C. America
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Ouachita/ Washita Mound
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Ouachita (Washita)
The Ouachita mound site is the earliest known mound site. It is situated in the northeastern part of the state of Louisana at a place called Watson Brake. It dates back to 5400 years ago. It consist of 11 differently sized raized mounds configured into a semi-circle. It is raized high enough to overlook the Ouachite river. It is believed this sites dates back before the advent of agriculture in North America and there has yet to be any evidince the mounds were used as burial site or contain artifacts. It is possibly the design is purely for defence. During the famous Ouachita expedition led by William Dundar this site and others were passed by because the expedition did not venture far away from the Ouachita river
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1491 BY Charles C Mann page 291,292
Hidden Cities by Roger Kennedy page 195, 196
Written by Michelle Evans
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Ephraim George Squier and E. H. Davis, "The Serpent;" entry 1014, Adams County Ohio. Pl. XXXV, Ancient monuments of the Mississippi Valley: comprising the results of extensive original surveys and explorations, Washington: Smithsonian institution, 1848
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Practicing growing things.
The first is sweet corn
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In Cahokia, north America. 2000 years ago.
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The Mound Builders (1976) Press Photo
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1897 Report: Robust Skeletons Wearing Copper Bracelets Unearthed from OH Mound
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By Derek Olson
I found the following 1897 article from searching through the digital archives of the Library of Congress. Linked below is the original published article and screen shots of the newspaper
TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, JULY 2ND, 1897
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my professor needs to kill herself bc why are there 13 reading quizzes one for each chapter each worth 10 pts... the total class is 630 points anyways the quizzes r only 4 questions each at least the first one was..... so im already fucked? kms hehe
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Picture Cave: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Mississippian Cosmos: A Book Review
New blog post at The Storytelling Blog. Review of Picture Cave: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Mississippian Cosmos. I used this book extensively for #TheBigCinch background. #prehistoric #storyresearch
Picture Cave, edited by Carol Diaz-Grandados and colleagues. University of Texas Press, Austin.
A lot of heavy academic research is sometimes needed to feed popular-culture fantasy fiction worldbuilding. Crucial to my novel, The Big Cinch, was Picture Cave: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Mississippian Cosmos. Picture Cave documents Mississippi Valley prehistoric cave art. It also shares the…
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Timeline for North America Mound Builders Civilizations
5400 years ago the, Ouachita Mound Ring site, Northeastern Louisiana, 11 mounds in a circle
1700 -1200 B.C., several villages with concentric c-shape ridges appears 55 miles from Ouachita Site, most notable is at Poverty Point
800-100 B.C., Adena Culture flourished, Ohio Valley, part of eastern agricultural complex/ revolution, mounds were mostly burial
100 B.C.-400 A.D Hopewell Culture, sites stretch from Canada to Louisiana, mounds had ritual spaces, grand trade routes, spiritual influence spread
950-1250 Mississippian Culture mostly south eastern region of U.S., East St. Louis Mound Complex, St Louis Mound Complex, Monks Mounds Complex and Cahokia Complex with Sun calendar woodhenge
Many of these site were inhabited by different ethnic at different time making it difficult to determine the people who first built the mounds
Written by Michelle Evans
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Map of Newark Earthworks, Ohio
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A still life I did in 2002. Kind of messed it up. If I do a redraw of this one, I'll make corrections.
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