Mound

assignment two, I chose “Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson’s Mounds” by Alan H. Goodman and George J. Armelagos, and the article from the Bradford Foundation I am comparing it to is “The Cochimi Culture on the Baja California Peninsula of Mexico.” I found it fascinating that both articles talked of disease and death but both came from completely opposite reasons. What I mean by that is that the artifacts show that the people of Dickson Mounds came from being farmers and having homesteads that…

The Mound Builders are a group of people, who pseudoarchaeologists claim, are another species or life form from the Native Americans. For years, Europeans that came to the New World claimed that they were some other life form because they didn’t believe that the Native Americans were capable of that kind of culture and mental capacity. These pseudoarchaeological claims stem from the racism of the Europeans. The Mound Builders were Native Americans who, during time periods between 2,200 and 1,600…

presence of mounds; these peoples have been referred to as the Mound Builders. The only way to know about these people is through archaeology. The data that researchers have collected is scarce, there is no written record and no known language, the Mississippians are solely known by the scare material remains that have been uncovered and mounds. It is known that these people were sedentary, were active agriculturalists, they often lived in fortified villages, and created mounds. Why the mounds…

Mound City is located next to the Scioto River in Chillicothe, Ohio. It is made up of a rectangular earthen enclosure bordering 13 acres which has 23 earthen mounds within it. This earthen wall is about four feet in height and has a gateway on the eastern and western sides. This site has undergone multiple archaeological digs and investigations. The mounds within the enclosure are domed shaped mounds with the exception of one, which is in an elliptical shape. The most impressive and largest…

class was that there were mounds built by the Indians in Indiana. Prior to knowing about Angel Mounds, I thought I would have to travel to the Southwest to see any type of structure left by early Native Americans. It was interesting to learn what that the mound were built for many purposes and that you can tell by their different shapes what they were used for. In The Sacred Wisdom of the American Indians, there is an explanation on the different types of mounds. Burial mounds are either…

Cahokia Mounds Thousands of years ago, known as the Mississippians today, begin to settle down. The built houses, burial mounds, ritual mounds and the center or all mound were called Cahokia. For their daily nutritional requirement, they used different resources. As earlier people, they grew squash, sunflower, wild berries and many other seed bearing plants, but the main fuel for their enterprise was agriculture. They started growing corn. As the corn grew well here and it could be stored for…

Sutton Hoo is near the town of Woodbridge, England. The area of Sutton Hoo has allegedly been inhabited since as early as 3000 B.C. It was rediscovered back in 1938 and was initially thought to contain 13 burial mounds but later, 5 more were discovered. Most of the burial mounds had been ransacked before any professional archaeologists could get to them. (James 2016) Luckily the ransackers had failed to find a ninety feet long ship that was full of gold and silver treasures. When the ship was…

In Native American cultures, the arts are different based on the region, but they are also similar. Throughout America the regions are similar because no matter which region you are in there are impressive gravesites built in each region. Another similarity all three regions had were the art had big heads to represent power and the egos of the kings. Same thing with the gravesites. The bigger the heads and gravesites the more powerful the kings were and it filled the kings’ egos. In the…

in each villages plaza they had one of more ceremonial earth mounds assembled around the plaza and a temple or the chief’s residence next to it. The earth mounds were typical to South America and Mexico, but were not seen in North America until the rise of the Mississippian culture. The Mississippians built one of the largest man-made earthen structures in their time, such as the Monks Mound in the Cahokia Mounds near Illinois. Monks Mound is one thousand feet…

When I was in sixth grade I was playing baseball and I hit one over the fence, the umpire said it was a foul ball. If I was playing cricket I would still be in play. Baseball and cricket are kind of similar, yet very different. In cricket they have different equipment than baseball. And the fields are different. For example there is not an out of bounds when you hit the ball. In baseball you have a round bat cleats helmet and a glove for one hand. In cricket your have two shin pad, hemet, two…