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Silbury Hill on the left, is the largest prehistoric mound in Europe. — 18 Jul 2018

The Mythologized Legacy of the North American Mounds

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition

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Ancient landscapes the world over were once encrusted with earthen mounds, variously called cairns, tumulus, barrows, burial mounds and kurgans. In England, Silbury Hill near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire, is a prehistoric...
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Silbury Hill on the left, is the largest prehistoric mound in Europe. — 18 Jul 2018

The Mythologized Legacy of the North American Mounds

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition

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Ancient landscapes the world over were once encrusted with earthen mounds, variously called cairns, tumulus, barrows, burial mounds and kurgans. In England, Silbury Hill near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire, is a prehistoric...
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Skeletal remains and recreation of a prehistoric timber circle — 08 Dec 2017

Burned Bones, Mysterious Timber Circles & the Rites of the Ancients - Adena Culture in Mason County

By Jason Jarrell

Archaeology & Science, Politics & Social Structure

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Mason County, West Virginia is a place rich in history. Founded in 1804, the county is named after George Mason, who was a delegate at the American Constitutional Convention of 1787. In October of 1774, Colonel Andrew Lewis successfully lead the...
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Skeletal remains and recreation of a prehistoric timber circle — 08 Dec 2017

Burned Bones, Mysterious Timber Circles & the Rites of the Ancients - Adena Culture in Mason County

By Jason Jarrell

Archaeology & Science, Politics & Social Structure

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Mason County, West Virginia is a place rich in history. Founded in 1804, the county is named after George Mason, who was a delegate at the American Constitutional Convention of 1787. In October of 1774, Colonel Andrew Lewis successfully lead the...
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Reconstitution of a prehistoric burial. Representative image — 06 Nov 2017

Bones of the Child, Tools of the Shaman: Ritual and Cosmology at the Hopewell Tunacunnhee Mounds

By Jason Jarrell

Archaeology & Science

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Near Trenton in Dade County, Georgia, is a place called Tunacunnhee, supposedly named after a Native American word meaning “Lookout Creek”. Located just a few hundred yards east of Lookout Creek is an archaeological site known as the...
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Reconstitution of a prehistoric burial. Representative image — 06 Nov 2017

Bones of the Child, Tools of the Shaman: Ritual and Cosmology at the Hopewell Tunacunnhee Mounds

By Jason Jarrell

Archaeology & Science

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Near Trenton in Dade County, Georgia, is a place called Tunacunnhee, supposedly named after a Native American word meaning “Lookout Creek”. Located just a few hundred yards east of Lookout Creek is an archaeological site known as the...
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A Puma in the night (Public Domain); with ancestor spirits — 13 Oct 2017

Ghost Talkers and Puma Men: Adena Totemism and the Shamans of the Early Woodland Period

By Jason Jarrell

Archaeology & Science, Politics & Social Structure

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The people of the Adena Culture are widely regarded as the first builders of mounds and earthworks in the Ohio Valley.By conventional dating the culture spans the period of 1000 BC to around 300 AD. Adena people built conical burial mounds ranging...
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A Puma in the night (Public Domain); with ancestor spirits — 13 Oct 2017

Ghost Talkers and Puma Men: Adena Totemism and the Shamans of the Early Woodland Period

By Jason Jarrell

Archaeology & Science, Politics & Social Structure

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The people of the Adena Culture are widely regarded as the first builders of mounds and earthworks in the Ohio Valley.By conventional dating the culture spans the period of 1000 BC to around 300 AD. Adena people built conical burial mounds ranging...
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Piles of clamshells (Schvin/CC BY 2.0), background: men in a Curragh, a skin boat (WilliamMurphy/CC BY-SA 2.0);Deriv. — 25 Aug 2017

Seafarers and Shell Rings: Strange Formations on the American Coast a Hallmark of Faraway Visitors?

By jim willis

Archaeology & Science

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Just south of Awendaw, South Carolina, in the Francis Marion National Forest, is an example of a type of architectural artifact that still baffles archaeologists. For every explanation someone offers up, there are many more that refute it. ...
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Piles of clamshells (Schvin/CC BY 2.0), background: men in a Curragh, a skin boat (WilliamMurphy/CC BY-SA 2.0);Deriv. — 25 Aug 2017

Seafarers and Shell Rings: Strange Formations on the American Coast a Hallmark of Faraway Visitors?

By jim willis

Archaeology & Science

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Just south of Awendaw, South Carolina, in the Francis Marion National Forest, is an example of a type of architectural artifact that still baffles archaeologists. For every explanation someone offers up, there are many more that refute it. ...
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Foundations of Stone – Part II : Investigating the Megalithics of West Virginia and the Connection to the Pleiades — 21 Sep 2016

Foundations of Stone – Part II : Investigating the Megalithics of West Virginia and the Connection to the Pleiades

By Jason Jarrell

Archaeology & Science

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Returning to the Charleston area, one crucial detail of the earthworks omitted from Cyrus Thomas’ published report is the existence of a series of “graded ways” which connected the earthworks on both sides of the Kanawha, which can be seen in...
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Foundations of Stone – Part II : Investigating the Megalithics of West Virginia and the Connection to the Pleiades — 21 Sep 2016

Foundations of Stone – Part II : Investigating the Megalithics of West Virginia and the Connection to the Pleiades

By Jason Jarrell

Archaeology & Science

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Returning to the Charleston area, one crucial detail of the earthworks omitted from Cyrus Thomas’ published report is the existence of a series of “graded ways” which connected the earthworks on both sides of the Kanawha, which can be seen in...
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Foundations of Stone – Part I : Investigating the Megalithic Aspect of Late Archaic and Woodland Cultures in West Virginia — 19 Sep 2016

Foundations of Stone – Part I : Investigating the Megalithic Aspect of Late Archaic and Woodland Cultures in West Virginia

By Jason Jarrell

Archaeology & Science, Politics & Social Structure

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The data for this article regarding the Charleston Earthworks is largely derived from the handwritten manuscript of P.W. Norris. The authors have used this version of the report due to the needless exclusions of data and erroneous measurements...
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Foundations of Stone – Part I : Investigating the Megalithic Aspect of Late Archaic and Woodland Cultures in West Virginia — 19 Sep 2016

Foundations of Stone – Part I : Investigating the Megalithic Aspect of Late Archaic and Woodland Cultures in West Virginia

By Jason Jarrell

Archaeology & Science, Politics & Social Structure

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The data for this article regarding the Charleston Earthworks is largely derived from the handwritten manuscript of P.W. Norris. The authors have used this version of the report due to the needless exclusions of data and erroneous measurements...
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