I am writing about the effigy mounds. These were mounds made by tribes that lived on the upper mississippi river.They made these mounds for different reasons but nobody is really clear of why they made them some say the buried people in them. They built between 15,000 to 25,000 in minnesota. Only 4,000 remain today in minnesota but many in different areas.
The mound builders were a group of people who made these. Adena and Hopewell was a type of culture that made them.
One of the biggest mounds is Monks mound. This mound is located in Collinsville, IL. In 1988 it was recordedto be 100 feet high by 955 ft long. that makes its base about the same size as the Pyramid of Giza. Grave creek mound it located in West Virginia near the Ohio River. This one is only 62 feet high and 240 ft in diameter.
Reasons they could have been built was for agriculture. They could have kept high water away. It could have compeled people to put their beleifs into landscapes.
Beliefs were thats indians made them for burial. God created a snake shaped mound to represent the garden of eden. Early black civilizations made them like the same ones that mad atlantis and Mu (hahaha that one was funny).Mythical creatures made them and just like the last one then said the people from atlantis made them. The vikings could have made them too. Some really weird people said Aliens. In one of them i even saw somebody comment on the article and put chuck norris created them.
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