Effigy Mounds National Monument preserves more than 200 ancient earthen mounds shaped like bears, birds, and spirits of the ...

Cahokia was a robust economic and cultural center for the Mississippian people. They built hundreds of massive mounds but suddenly left the city in the 1300s. Built from an estimated 22 million cubic ...

Archaeologists working across the Czech Republic have identified Neolithic burial mounds, roughly 5,000 years old, hidden ...

Castle archaeologist Wes Clarke discusses the Conus mound in Marietta’s Mound Cemetery. It’s associated with the Adena culture, which was active in the Mid-Ohio Valley around 800 B.C. to A.D. 100.

Nowadays, students on the LSU campus pay little attention to the dramatic, sloping grassy backdrop on their path to class: the more than 6,000-year-old North American earthen mounds. The mounds, ...

A group of LSU archaeologists are disputing claims by a university colleague that a pair of 20-foot mounds on the west side of their campus were built by ancient indigenous people over 11,000 years ...