Adena Indians built mounds using the women and girls of the tribe. They carried clay and earth in woven baskets to the site of the mound. The men only supervised.
This from the book"Mounds in the Mist, by Harry Kroll and Mildred Payne
The Mound Builders built mounds of earth and stone
they built mounds
my mom
they sometimes built mounds
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my mom
I think they built mounds for religious purposes and as cemetaries for the dead .
my mom
They produced great mounds, and the Monk's Mouund which was over 100 ft. tall.
The Indian Mound Builders built mounds for elite residential purposes, burials and religious and other ceremonials. The mounds were usually flat-topped pyramids or platform mounds.
Because they built large mounds for ceremonial and burial use.