Ohio Mound Builder
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Social Science, Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Prehistoric Humans
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: Ohio, Alabama, Illinois
Article abstract: The earliest “architects” in North America built elaborate burial sites
When a large number of human-made 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, at least to the European mind. Various non-Indian Mound Builders were hypothesized: the lost tribes of Israel, the Vikings, and other Old World groups. This oversight of Native Americans is surprising, given the high culture developed...
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