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Mound Building Cultures
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Over 2,000 years ago, a mound 62 feet high and 240 feet in diameter containing 57,000 tons of dirt was built. Why would the Native Americans build such a mound? This burial site along with thousands of smaller ones was built to be a gravesite of a great warrior, chieftain, or religious leader. P ....
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....ved as bases for public buildings, houses of tribe leaders, and temples. Platform mounds started being built by Native Americans after 800 A.D. The height of the mound is the result of basket loads of soil brought and piled by laborers within the society. These mounds were created like a platform so buildings could be easily built on them. The buildings on them mounds usually had subfloor storage pits inside of the mound. Inside the temples were carvings, paintings, and a sacred fire that on.... |
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