Serpent Mound In The Adena Culture

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The work that has been done is informative and provides a basis for how researchers have come to understand Serpent Mound. Due to new confirmatory studies, it can be said that Serpent Mound is was created by the Adena Culture ~2,300 years ago and was a multi-occupational site. However, the literature is not all-inclusive, and there needs to be further inquiry. The indigenous voice is missing from Serpent Mound’s narrative, as well as many archaeological sites. This project is to make the narrative more inclusive and not to other the indigenous voice but work in collaboration with the western archaeological data, and to show case the indigenous oral histories.

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