mounds

Examples of mounds in the following topics:

• Woodlands in the East

  • Mound City, located on Ohio Highway 104 is a group of 23 earthen mounds constructed by the Hopewell culture.
  • Each mound within the group covered the remains of a charnel house.
  • They constructed a mound over the remains.
  • Monks Mound is the largest structure and central focus of the city: a massive platform mound with four terraces, 10 stories tall, and the largest human-made earthen mound north of Mexico.
  • The middle plate is Rogan plate 1, from Etowah Mounds in Georgia.

• Woodland Burial Mounds and Chiefdoms

  • The Woodland Period, which followed the Archaic Period, was marked by the prolific mound-building of indigenous cultures.
  • According to archaeological investigations, Adena mounds were usually built as part of a burial ritual in which the earth of the mound was piled atop a burned mortuary building.
  • The mound would then be constructed, and often a new mortuary structure would be placed atop that mound.
  • The large and elaborate mound sites served a nearby scattering of people.
  • Describe the mound building cultures of the Ohio and Mississippi River Valley and the functions of the mounds

• Grave Goods in the Kofun Period

  • The Kofun period is the oldest era of recorded history in Japan and is characterized by its earthen burial mounds.
  • The word kofun is Japanese for the type of burial mounds dating back to this era.
  • Kofun (from Middle Chinese kú, meaning "ancient", and bjun, meaning "burial mound") are defined as the burial mounds built for the people of the ruling class during the 3rd to 7th centuries in Japan, and the Kofun period takes its name from these distinctive earthen mounds.
  • The mounds contained large stone burial chambers, and some were surrounded by moats.
  • Daisen Kofun, the largest of the earthen burial mounds from the Kofun period in Japan.

• Mississippian Culture

  • The construction of large, truncated earthwork pyramid mounds, or platform mounds.
  • Such mounds were usually square, rectangular, or occasionally circular.
  • The beginnings of a settlement hierarchy, in which one major center (with mounds) has clear influence or control over a number of lesser communities, which may or may not possess a smaller number of mounds.
  • Mississippian cultures, like many before them, built mounds.
  • This contributed to the myth of the Mound Builders as a people distinct from Native Americans.

• Native Americans in the 1490's

  • In the realms of art and architecture, the Mississippian peoples were known for constructing large, truncated, earthwork pyramid mounds, or platform mounds.
  • Such mounds were usually square, rectangular, or occasionally circular.
  • Structures (e.g. domestic houses, temples, burial buildings) were usually constructed atop such mounds.
  • This social stratification could be seen in the hierarchy of settlements, where one major center built upon several mounds has clear influence or control over a number of lesser communities, which may or may not possess a smaller number of mounds.
  • More defensive structures are often seen at sites, sometimes accompanied by a decline in mound-building and ceremonialism.

• Norse Ships in the Early European Middle Ages

  • The Oseberg ship was discovered in a burial mound in Norway and is one of the finest artistic and archaeological finds from the Viking Age.
  • The Oseberg burial mound contained numerous grave goods and the remains of two female human skeletons.
  • The ship's interment into its burial mound dates from 834 CE, but parts of the ship date from around 800 CE, and scholars believe that ship itself is older.
  • The skeletons of two women were found in the Oseberg burial mound.
  • Identify the important artifacts found in the burial mound of the Oseberg ship.

• Buddhist Stupas

  • A stupa, literally meaning "heap," is a mound-like structure designed to encase Buddhist relics and other holy objects.
  • Originally a simple mound of clay or mud, stupas evolved from simple funerary monuments to become elaborately decorated objects of veneration.
  • Legend has it that following the cremation of Buddha, his ashes were divided into eight parts and distributed among various rulers to be enshrined at special burial mounds.

• Dur Sharrukin

  • On the central canal of Sargon's garden stood a pillared pleasure-pavilion which looked up to a great topographic creation - a man-made Garden Mound.
  • This mound was planted with cedars and cypresses and modeled after the Amanus mountains in north Syria.

• Shapes of Sampling Distributions

  • Even in the relatively simple case of a mounded distribution, the distribution may be skewed to the left or skewed to the right (with symmetric corresponding to no skew).

• Eastern Woodland Culture

  • Adena mounds generally ranged in size from 2o to 300 feet in diameter and served as burial structures, ceremonial sites, historical markers, and possibly even gathering places.
  • The mounds provided a fixed geographical reference point for the scattered populations of people dispersed in small settlements of one to two structures.
  • Throughout the Southeast and north of the Ohio River, burial mounds of important people were very elaborate and contained a variety of mortuary gifts, many of which were not local.
  • In most areas, construction of burial mounds decreased drastically, as did long distance trade in exotic materials.
  • The Eastern Woodland cultures built burial mounds for important people such as these of the Hopewell tradition in Ohio.