Mound builders

The mound-builders : a reconstruction of the life of a prehistoric American race, through exploration and interpretation of their earth mounds, their burials, and their cultural remains

Across the Southeast of the United States of North America a great corn-fed civilization had arisen, that of the Temple Mound Builders, so named for the religious edifices which topped their great earth thumps. Also called the Mississippian culture in nod to its stronghold in the bottomlands of the Mississippi and Ohio, it aroused around…

By the fourth century AD, the predominant race in northern Scotland were the Picts, the name was coined by the Romans who referred to them as 'Picti' meaning 'painted ones', which referred to the Pictish custom of either tattooing their bodies or covering themselves with warpaint.

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Shawnee Indian chief Cornstalk claims the mounds and earthworks in the Ohio Valley were built by an ancient race with white complexion

Cahokia: North American Mounds - Crystalinks

Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeast Iowa, home to over 200 prehistoric Indian mounds on the 2,500 acres north of Marquette, might add another mound to the map. Last summer, […]

The incredible Hopewell Culture was contemporaneous with the end of the Adena culture, but the Adena people tended to be considerably larger than the Hopewell. Remains of men seven feet tall were c…

Recent scientific investigations have revealed that the Serpent Mound was probably built by the Early Woodland (Adena) people around 321 B.C. The Mound had previously

The Cahokia Mounds were once one of the most prosperous Native American cities in the Americas. These ancient residents of America built long-standing, sedentary communities with complex social structures, sprawling community squares, and ceremonial earthen mounds