... in age. Mound City and Newark date to around A.D. 1-50, while Seip dates to A.D. 100-200. The Hopewell burials are rich in ceremony and culture, features that have survived the test of time. Construction The construction of the mounds and earthworks is achieved through the usage of borrow pits, or a large pit that has had the earth removed, to construct the ... or human being. While this is only a theory, most believe that these "effigy- mounds are merely overlapping mounds and are not symbolic of fauna or human. Function The function of geometric earthworks has been theorized since the...

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