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
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There have been many different cultures around the world. Some of these cultures developed into civilizations. Two cultures that should be considered as civilizations are the Hohokam culture and the Mound Builders. The Hohokam culture is considered as civilization. It is located in what is now Arizona. One reason that makes the Hohokam culture a civilization is that they have specialized jobs. Some examples of their specialized jobs are farmers‚ people who dug canals for irrigation‚ and hunters
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they were set up in displays of what they would have done on a daily basis. I did not realize that Cahokia Mounds covers five square miles. I always thought of it as just one huge mound with buried objects instead of the area consisting of several mounds making an entire village. Wondering how the large mounds were made‚ especially the largest mound‚ Monks Mound‚ I asked. Apparently‚ the mounds of earth were made from “borrow pits” with stone and wood tools. The dirt was then taken in baskets on people’s
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The Mound Builder civilization can be described in terms of Human-Environmental-Interaction (HEI). The Ancient Mound Builder civilization built many Earthen Mounds over a vast period of time in North America. The Mound Builders were hunters and gathers but later began to domesticate the following native plants: Sunflowers‚ goose foot‚ erect knot wood‚ and May grass (“The Woodland Period”). Due to the Mound builders location they had to face many environmental challenges‚ first the Appalachian Mountain
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Cultural Anthropology Case Study: Cahokia Mounds In southern Illinois in Collinsville‚ the largest prehistoric settlement north of Mexico can be found. This is the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site which is 4‚000 acres. How Cahokia began and ended to this day is still considered a mystery. The people of Cahokia built more thank 120 earth mounds as landmarks‚ tombs‚ and ceremonial platforms. The largest of these mounds is Monks Mound. It covers more than 14 acres‚ and it once supported a 5‚000-square-foot
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Myths of the Mound Builders The first time I heard about the Mound Builders‚ which was in this class‚ these people seemed like a very primitive group. What was so exciting about having the skill of piling up a bunch of dirt. Then I was able to see some of these mounds and the scale was nothing I had imagined. These mounds were huge and also contained distinct structural shapes. Tombs‚ houses‚ and religious structures were constructed in or on top of the mounds. What made the edifices even
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Kofun Burial Mounds in Ancient Japan “The practice of building sepulchral mounds and burying treasures with the dead was transmitted to Japan from the Asian continent about the third century A.D.” (B. Ford‚ 1987‚ p.24) Locally these mega structures were called Kofun Burial Mounds‚ titled after the Ancient Japanese period in which they were built‚ the Kofun Period (300 – 800 C.E.) The sites of more than 10 000 keyhole tombs still remain in Japan‚ though direct access to these tombs is difficult
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across the American Midwest and Southeast starting before A.D. 1000 and peaking around the 13th century. The idea that American Indians could have built something resembling a city was so foreign to European settlers‚ that when they discovered the mounds of Cahokia‚ the largest of which is a ten-story earthen colossus composed of more than 22 million cubic feet of soil‚ they commonly thought they must have been the work of a foreign civilization. Phoenicians or Vikings perhaps. Even to this day‚ the
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left behind‚ such as the artifacts. The Iroquois groups‚ consisting of five chiefdoms or nations‚ are another instant where they “separated” themselves from others. Another very important model that is proof is vast structures like The Great Serpent Mound that were built and left behind. There were massive trade route networks that connected Indian people of many different communities and regions. When historians were able to conclude the origin of certain artifacts found at ancient sites‚ they could
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Civilizations 16 November 2012 Mississippian Mound Builders Before the discovery of the Americas by Europeans‚ there were ancient Native American civilizations that flourished throughout the continents. Different regions were known for different things‚ whether it was hunting‚ gathering‚ or trading various commodities. One region in particular‚ from the Mississippi River Valley to the Ohio River Valley‚ was made famous by mound building (Joseph‚ p. 322). Mound building is a sacred and sometimes religious
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