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Originally posted by iMacFanatic
Well you have certainly done your homework.
I first heard about these...gawd maybe as a teen and I am 54 now. I was really into studying history, archeology and anthropology at the time as well as oddities.
I forget where I learned of them though...perhaps Ripley's or Charles Fort or a book on the antiquities of North America.
Regardless they are fascinating and what is even more fascinating is that these sites you are talking about are not isolated. They exist all up and down the Mississippi river valley and its tributaries.
In fact as I understand it at the same time these earthworks were in use larger sites existed in and around St.Louis...which have been obscured by the sprawl of the current cities...
Also in the same St. Louis region existed a city that would rival the present one in size and for awhile was the largest known in either North or South America.
Originally posted by Donny 4 million
The Americas were thinly populated and war fare was not very common in those days.
It was easier to move to another place that fight.
Originally posted by Donny 4 million
Here are some mounds I have visited
Okmulgee near Macon Georgia.(earth mounds)
Natchez mounds in Mississippi.(earth mounds)
Emerald Mound- Western Tennessee.(earth mound)
Spiro Mound - Eastern Oklahoma (earth mounds)
Cahocia Mound - Collinsville Illinois Across the river from St. Louis Missouri (huge earth mound)
Crystal River Mound and several (oyster mounds) through out Florida and the Gulf coast.
Moundsville - West Virginia (earth mounds) Ohio River.
There are many along the Ohio River drainage also, Serpent Mound for one.
I would mention though that these folks did not use bronze or any other smelted metals.
Copper items were most likely hammered out of copper pellets found along the shores of the Great Lakes.