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  • Animal Effigies and Indian Mounds June 4, 2011

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Medieval
    Animal Effigies and Indian Mounds

      Beachcombing has long been attracted to the so called ‘animal effigy mounds’ of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio and Louisiana. Across these states local Indian populations built a series of giant mounds in the shape of animals. Dating is almost impossibly difficult in such cases, but many archaeologists have placed the creation of these mounds […]