Mound Builders
Mound Builders
Our burials may become a place for future generations to come and visit. But, that also makes me question, what will occur to our tombs in the next hundreds, possibly even thousands of centuries? Where will they end up residing?
Mound builders are ancient values of Native Americans for a couple of purposes. In several countries there are several mounds being evacuated. This is a problem because a various amount of these mounds are valuable to generations upon generations of people. It seems like people are starting to take away the things that mean the most in life. Because sometimes all people may have left to remember is the visiting site of people that were in remembrance, and it is all being taken out of their very own …show more content…
Numerous thousands of American Indian mounds were assembled throughout river valleys in the Midwest, down in the south, and even up in several different parts of upstate New York all down through the Carolina’s, or better known as the East. These Mounds were assembled throughout the ages of 1000 B.C. and A.D. 1500, around this era the material were made completely out of man made significant material for burial places, sites, for …show more content…
700 to the 1700’s was named the Mississippian culture. Few of the burial places were complex mounds, but most others were ordinary bases and temples. A famous mound that is currently located in Cahokia, Illinois today is named Monk’s Mound. It stands at 100 ft. tall, 1,000 feet long, and 700 feet wide, which is broadly considered to be the most ginormous man-made material structure in our planet currently (Franklin 33).
No one is sure why people eventually stopped constructing mounds, because after that, cultures began to decease. We do acknowledge that the era of mound builders ended during the time that the first ever European explorers arrived to the New World. But potential explanations may be rebellions, battles, overflows, starvations, and possibly horrible sickness that were spreading in many countries.
One of the first migrants to find the mounds was the famous, Thomas Jefferson. But, when the Europeans first saw the mounds, they inferred that the mounds must have been constructed by a mysterious unfamiliar race that had disappeared from this planet. Of what he discovered in a mound in Virginia, this is his explanation of his
Our burials may become a place for future generations to come and visit. But, that also makes me question, what will occur to our tombs in the next hundreds, possibly even thousands of centuries? Where will they end up residing?
Mound builders are ancient values of Native Americans for a couple of purposes. In several countries there are several mounds being evacuated. This is a problem because a various amount of these mounds are valuable to generations upon generations of people. It seems like people are starting to take away the things that mean the most in life. Because sometimes all people may have left to remember is the visiting site of people that were in remembrance, and it is all being taken out of their very own …show more content…
Numerous thousands of American Indian mounds were assembled throughout river valleys in the Midwest, down in the south, and even up in several different parts of upstate New York all down through the Carolina’s, or better known as the East. These Mounds were assembled throughout the ages of 1000 B.C. and A.D. 1500, around this era the material were made completely out of man made significant material for burial places, sites, for …show more content…
700 to the 1700’s was named the Mississippian culture. Few of the burial places were complex mounds, but most others were ordinary bases and temples. A famous mound that is currently located in Cahokia, Illinois today is named Monk’s Mound. It stands at 100 ft. tall, 1,000 feet long, and 700 feet wide, which is broadly considered to be the most ginormous man-made material structure in our planet currently (Franklin 33).
No one is sure why people eventually stopped constructing mounds, because after that, cultures began to decease. We do acknowledge that the era of mound builders ended during the time that the first ever European explorers arrived to the New World. But potential explanations may be rebellions, battles, overflows, starvations, and possibly horrible sickness that were spreading in many countries.
One of the first migrants to find the mounds was the famous, Thomas Jefferson. But, when the Europeans first saw the mounds, they inferred that the mounds must have been constructed by a mysterious unfamiliar race that had disappeared from this planet. Of what he discovered in a mound in Virginia, this is his explanation of his