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- Monks Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the Americas and the largest pyramid north of Mesoamerica. The beginning of its construction dates...16 KB (1,908 words) - 20:18, 22 June 2024
- Cahokia (redirect from Cahokia Mound)Monks Mound near its center point. Four large plazas were established to the east, west, north, and south of Monks Mound. To the south of Monks Mound...74 KB (7,691 words) - 10:26, 16 August 2024
- England Monks Mound, the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in America north of Mesoamerica Monks Wood, Cambridgeshire, England Other uses: Monks (surname)...855 bytes (144 words) - 22:07, 23 August 2024
- structure is Monks Mound at Cahokia, near present-day Collinsville, Illinois. This community was the center of the Mississippian culture. This mound appears...54 KB (6,572 words) - 09:14, 6 August 2024
- or Monks Mound, which has four separate levels and stands close to 100 feet (30 m) in height. Monks Mound had at least ten separate periods of mound construction...10 KB (1,003 words) - 00:56, 31 March 2024
- new village on Monks Mound. The French then built the River L’Abbė mission. The mission was built on the first terrace of Monks Mound within the city...12 KB (1,197 words) - 01:45, 12 June 2024
- Mound 72 is a small ridgetop mound located roughly 850 meters (2,790 ft) to the south of Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois. Early...26 KB (3,073 words) - 02:12, 28 July 2024
- timber circles located roughly 850 metres (2,790 ft) to the west of Monks Mound at the Mississippian culture Cahokia archaeological site near Collinsville...16 KB (1,612 words) - 05:45, 12 July 2024
- North America is Monks Mound, located in present-day Cahokia, Illinois. With the base of the structure exceeding 16 acres Monks Mound is also one of the...15 KB (1,868 words) - 10:10, 18 June 2024
- Mississippian culture (redirect from Mississippian mound builder)between 1200 and 1730. The platform mound is the second-largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the country, after Monks Mound at Cahokia. Grand Village of the...32 KB (3,248 words) - 02:51, 23 August 2024
- the largest, was based in present-day Illinois. The construction of Monks Mound at Cahokia was begun in 900–950. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the Bantu expansion...32 KB (836 words) - 21:37, 20 August 2024
- pyramidal earth structures known as platform mounds. Among the largest and best-known of these structures is Monks Mound at the site of Cahokia in what became...39 KB (4,141 words) - 22:03, 13 August 2024
- across. At the time of its discovery, the mound was the second-largest known in Illinois after Monks Mound at Cahokia. The site was added to the National...3 KB (224 words) - 05:29, 6 August 2023
- French Catholic monks had a settlement on Monks Mound, after whom it was later named. They cultivated agriculture on the terraces of the mound. They traded...24 KB (2,374 words) - 11:54, 27 April 2024
- North America. (Larger cities did exist in Mesoamerica and the Andes.) Monks Mound, the major ceremonial center of Cahokia, remains the largest earthen...89 KB (9,882 words) - 18:57, 12 August 2024
- Mound 34 is a small platform mound located roughly 400 metres (1,300 ft) to the east of Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois. Excavations...15 KB (1,622 words) - 06:22, 25 July 2023
- wood. Examples of temple mounds include Monks Mound located at the Cahokia site in Collinsville, Illinois, and Mound H at the Crystal River site in Citrus...14 KB (1,578 words) - 19:39, 20 February 2024
- This is a list of notable burial mounds in the United States built by Native Americans. Burial mounds were built by many different cultural groups over...25 KB (562 words) - 05:02, 20 August 2024
- sacred cedar, all in a planned design expressing the culture's cosmology. Monks Mound, the center of the site, is the largest Pre-Columbian structure north...222 KB (18,627 words) - 21:40, 21 August 2024
- Mississippi Aztalan Big Eddy Cahokia Monks Mound Mound 34 Mound 72 Ramey state Woodhenge Cloverdale Dickson Mounds Emerald Acropolis Emmons Cemetery Horseshoe...16 KB (1,298 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2024
- to Anthropology by Otis Tufton Mason Silver Crosses from an Indian Grave-Mound at Coosawattee Old Town, Murray County, Georgia by Charles Colcock Jones
- original mouth but remains wordless; It is surrounded by a magnificent mound of hair. Sentient beings can get completely lost in it But it is also the
- a large plain south of Monks mound. The city proper contained 120 mounds at varying distances from the city center. The mounds were divided into several