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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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mound1 † world XIII; orb intended to represent the globe XVI. — (O)F.
monde :- L.
mundus world (see
MUNDANE).
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Mounds continue to delay landfill
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 3/31/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...walking study -- of previously noted mounds sites near Boone Grove in 1999. The Wark mound and nine other mounds are on land that Porter Development...findings from three neighboring mounds but not the Wark mound, Counts said, and did not show...
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 "Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)")
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MOUNDS HAVE LASTED 800 YEARS EFFIGIES WILL BE FETED AT EFFIGY MOUNDS NATIONAL MONUMENT AS THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CELEBRATES ITS 86TH ANNIVERSARY.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); 8/23/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...culture for the effigy mound builders between about...Alas, most of the mounds were destroyed as settlers...garden club who bought the mounds to preserve them. This...was excavated from a mound that was 500 years old...it themselves from the mounds of an earlier people...
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MOUNDS TELL AN ANCIENT STORY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/14/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...up view of the mounds on a walking trail...and size of each mound seem haphazard at...location. Using one mound as a place of observation...equinox from other mounds - the better to keep...believe the Toltec Mounds may also be related...called the Coy Mound, which took its...
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TESTING MOUNDS B AND E AT POVERTY POINT
Magazine article from: Southeastern Archaeology; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...argue that these two mounds were functionally similar, and that Mound B was probably never...consist of only three mounds (including Motley Mound) and the concentric...Mound A and Motley Mound. They did not recognize that Mounds C, D, and E might...
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CAHOKIA'S MOUND 31: A SHORT-TERM CONSTRUCTION AT A LONG-TERM SITE
Magazine article from: Southeastern Archaeology; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Joseph Caldwell and the Cahokia Mounds Archaeological Society resulted...systematic collections from Mound 31. Our analysis of the ceramic...associated with another lower mound (Mound 30), the two mounds forming an L-shaped pattern...
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Mound City rolls to 8-man title
Newspaper article from: St. Joseph News-Press; 11/28/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...ST. LOUIS -- The final minutes showed Mound City with an insurmountable, double...t get the privilege of finishing off Mound City's 8-man Show-Me Bowl title at...the Lions' third and final turnover, Mound City coach Brian Messer sent the starters...
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BURIAL MOUNDS FOUND THE DISCOVERY WILL HALT DEVELOPMENT AT THE HOME OF THE OLD ACADEMY BUILDING.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); 12/14/2008; 700+ words
; ...30 feet long. Many effigy mounds were used as burials, but not every mound contains remains. "If the burials did not occur in the mounds, they were near the mounds," Toth said. Toth said that the turtle mound does in fact contain burials...
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Effigy mounds humbling as well as historic
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 11/25/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...or animal-shaped, mounds. The Great Bear Mound in the northern unit...were the first to build mounds in the shapes of animals. Mound building here ended...Trail to Great Bear Mound and a series of smaller mounds, and finally a side...
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DECIPHERING ETOWAH'S MOUND C: THE CONSTRUCTION HISTORY AND MORTUARY RECORD OF A MISSISSIPPIAN BURIAL MOUND
Magazine article from: Southeastern Archaeology; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Lewis H. Larson, Jr. began work on Etowah's Mound C in 1954, he was faced with a mound remnant. The summits and part of the inner core...excavations recorded invaluable information about Mound C and its now famous mortuary record, which lay...
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Indian Mounds of Wisconsin.(Robert A. Birmingham and Leslie E. Eisenberg)
Magazine article from: Michigan Historical Review; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...arguing that the effigy mounds in Wisconsin, the second...interesting phase of mound building, followed an...Chapter 8, "Indian Mounds in the Modern World...a succinct summary of mound history as well as sensitive...Native Americans and the mounds their ancestors built...
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Indian Mounds
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...The Poverty Point mounds suggest a level of sophistication in mound building not seen...sparsely populated mound sites that usually...prominent conical burial mounds, some reaching heights...Arkansas, a new wave of mound building saw the...rectangular flat-topped mounds around large ...
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Mounds, Earthen
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...and Illinois, effigy mounds are shaped like deer...Today, the Great Serpent Mound winds along a river near...location of so many sacred mounds that it was once known as Mound City; today just one of those mounds remains. A great number...
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Mound Builders
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Mound Builders in North...people who built mounds in a large area...concentrations of mounds are found in the...valleys. The term "Mound Builders" arose...unclear. Other mounds date to the 3d...BC The Archaic mound-building tradition...
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mound
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...xA0; a small hill. ∎ ( a mound of/mounds of ) a large pile or quantity of something: burying...xA0; Baseball (in full pitcher’s mound ) the elevated area from which the pitcher delivers the...
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Cahokia Mounds
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...featuring at least 120 mounds (some ceremonial...The ceremonial Monks Mound, the largest platform mound north of Mexico, towers...Many conical burial mounds have been excavated...great distances. In one mound, a high-status male...
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