Mound Builders Rise in Ohio Valley
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Architecture, Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Ceremonies, Rites, Rituals, Prehistoric Humans
- Curriculum: American Indian History, American Pre-Colonial History (to 1606), Ancient History
- Geographical Location: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
- Date: c. 700 -c. 500
Article abstract: The earliest architects in North America built elaborate burial mounds in the Ohio Valley.
Summary of Event
When a large number of burial mounds were found in the Ohio River drainage and other parts of eastern North America in the nineteenth century, the ancestors of native North Americans seemed an unlikely source for their grandeur to the European mind. Various non-Indian mound builders were hypothesized: the lost tribes of Israel, the Vikings, and other Old World groups. The oversight of Native Americans is surprising, given the high...
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