Tag: ancient cultures
The Great Serpent Mound
The Great Serpent Mound is a large mound effigy representing a snake with a curled tail, that was constructed on the site of a classic astrobleme formed from the impact crater of an eroded meteorite that impacted less than 320 million years in the state of Ohio in the United States.
Localised Deforestation Unlikely to Cause Cahokia Collapse
Archaeologists from Washington University in St. Louis suggest that the abandonment of Cahokia was unlikely to have been caused by deforestation.
Kincaid Mounds – The Mound Metropolis of Illinois
The Kincaid Mounds is an ancient tribal centre of the Mississippian culture that built a large settlement comprising of raised mounds, in the present-day state of Illinois near the banks of the Ohio River, in the United States.