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Mound Building Cultures
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. Platform mounds were another type of mound was used for certain buildings. These mound builders were from v ....
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.... mica, and other materials are buried with the dead in mounds. Some burial chambers after 5000 B.C. had a central chamber for the remains of important Native American leaders.
Platform mounds, also known as temple mounds, served 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 m ....
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