Pardon me while I jump a bit in time and place 😀. I visited this Adena earthen mound in April of 2021 in a suburban neighborhood in Ohio, not far from Dayton. This sort of milieu is not an uncommon location for prehistoric indian earthworks, as post-contact Euro-American settlements grew and eventually took over. Most of these mounds succumbed to the plow; some survived. Adena in a Nutshell Adena refers to a mound-building culture from the Early Woodland period and it spanned ~ 800 BCE to early AD. Primarily centered in OH and immediately surrounding states (WV, KY, etc.). The main purpose of Adena mounds was funereal and ceremonial - burial places for the honored dead. Additional earth was added after each burial or ritual, resulting in some quite tall mounds. This one is listed at anywhere from 28-40 ft high, depending on who you believe. It was never excavated to my knowledge, but many contain human remains and grave goods. That's all I'm going to say about Adena here, be
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Stone and Earthen Structures in Woods and Fields