Some sections stand four or five stories tall, which means the ancient builders were able to construct from stone “the largest and tallest buildings known in North America until the steel-girder ...

The engineering accomplishments of the Poverty Point civilization are nothing short of astounding. Mound A, the largest of the earthworks, required an estimated 15.5 million basket loads of soil ...

Mound builders are believed to have been prehistoric inhabitants of North America who, during a 5,000-year period, constructed various styles of earthen mounds for religious, ceremonial, burial ...

For many of the indigenous tribes of North America, ceremonial bunes containing an assortment of sacred objects were, and in some cases continue to be, an important part of their religious lives ...

Ever since the first Europeans came to North America, only to discover the puzzling fact that other people were already living here, the question of how to understand the Native American past has ...

Perhaps the most famous mounds in North America are the 80-odd that make up Cahokia, an Indigenous settlement in Illinois that was larger than London in 1250 CE.

It seems I can no longer give a public program about Ohio’s amazing ancient American Indian mounds without someone in the audience asking me about giants, or the lost tribes of Israel — or ...

It's likely that ancient peoples returned to the area for hundreds, if not thousands, of years for mound building during the Woodland period, Oberreuter said, which occurred between 2,500 and 900 ...

Inventors, explorers, builders, traders: These ancient peoples were the innovators of their times. Although written records are scarce for these cultures, archaeological vestiges reveal the impact ...

Mapping an ancient site. In the spring of 2023, when the snow cover was gone but the leaves had not yet emerged, Dr. McLeester and her team conducted a drone-based LIDAR survey over some 330 ...