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.
They are earthen mounds.
all over Ohio
They moved dirt! P.S. you guys are idiots
They built mounds out of dirt from the grass lands and they put in valuable stuff to them and traded with other tribes.
The purpose of mound builders was to build religious ceremonial places. The Mayans created.
building mounds such as the serpent mound
They built mounds so they could worship their god's and burials. Also for other religious purposes.
They built mounds out of dirt from the grass lands and they put in valuable stuff to them and traded with other tribes.
The Mound Builders who were Adena and Hopewell and Mississippian.
They were made from earth, like dirt and maybe some brush. It depends whether the mound was more burials or buildings (ceremonial ones).
Not all mounds built by Native Americans contain human remains.
The original theory was that they used baskets of dirt, and that may still hold true for smaller mounds. Recent studies show that much more complex methods were required for the larger mounds (although they don't give examples of what that may have been).