Tumuli and Mounds
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Inside Kincaid Mounds: Where Modern Archaeology Began
From 1934, Kincaid Mounds taught America how to dig. Explore its 19 Mississippian platform mounds, 141-acre palisade and the lost Ohio River…
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Inside Angel Mounds: Indiana’s Mississippian River City
Built around AD 1100, Angel Mounds was a 1,000-resident Mississippian town on the Ohio River where Glenn Black unearthed 2.5 million artifacts.…
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Inside Town Creek: North Carolina’s Only Pee Dee Center
Occupied from AD 1150 to 1400, Town Creek Indian Mound is North Carolina’s only Pee Dee ceremonial center — explore the reconstructed…
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Inside Moundville: America’s Second-Largest Mound City
With 29 flat-topped mounds across 326 acres, Moundville was Mississippian America’s second city after Cahokia. Explore its rise, ruler, and fall.
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Emerald Mound: America’s Second-Largest Ancient Mound
Rising 35 feet across eight acres, Emerald Mound is America’s second-largest ancient earthwork—explore the Plaquemine ceremonial center near Natchez.
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Pazyryk Mounds: Inside Siberia’s Frozen Scythian Tombs
Excavated from 1929 to 1949, the Pazyryk burial mounds held 2,400-year-old Scythian mummies, tattoos and the world’s oldest carpet in Altai ice…