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Why did the mounds by the native Americans were in the shape of birds and snakes?
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because they honored their dead
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Why do you think some mounds were built in the shape of birds and snakes?
because the native americans had something called the spirit animal
Why do you think that some mounds were built in shapes of birds and snakes?
Researchers are uncertain as to why mounds were built in the shape of birds and snakes. Some theorize that this was because the people who built such mounds had great respect for these creatures.
Why did the anasazi build mounds in the shape of birds and snakes?
They didn't. You may be thinking of the mound building cultures in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys.
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there are birds on Guam, but most of the native birds were killed by the brown tree snake that the US accidentally introduced. The snakes stowed away in ships' cargo brought in from other parts of the Pacific (like the Solomon islands) where the snakes are native.
What did the Native Americans not eat?
Birds they were considered sacred
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deer snakes turkeys birds rabbits monkeys
What is a snakes predator?
Birds of Prey, other snakes.
Are there native animals in Puerto Rico tell me now?
There are. The coqui, birds, snakes and fish are natives of Puerto Rico.
What are Blue Sided Leaf Frogs predators?
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Were the effigy mounds built in the shape of constellations in the sky?
There is no definitive evidence to suggest that effigy mounds were intentionally built to represent constellations in the sky. Effigy mounds were primarily burial mounds constructed by indigenous peoples in North America. Their shapes often represented animals or other figures important to the culture that built them.
What animals were around when the nattive Americans where?
Deer, sheep, antelope, birds, and bears were there when the native Americans were alive and few of them are alive now.
What did the native Americans do to the whales they hunted?
They skinned and ate them, and left the bones to the birds, or they used them as knives.
