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.
They built large burial mounds in the shape of birds and snakes to honor their dead!
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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.
because the native americans had something called the spirit animal
The culture that built cities on mounds was the Chinese
there are approximately 3000 mounds
Mounds were built for ceremonial and burial purposes.
The Cahokia Mounds are in Illinois. The Mississippian culture built the mounds sometime between 600–1400 AD.
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Not all mounds built by Native Americans contain human remains.
They produced great mounds, and the Monk's Mouund which was over 100 ft. tall.
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