Indian Mound @ The Woods Resort Traditional Geocache
Indian Mound @ The Woods Resort
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Indian Burial Mound area.
Do NOT climb the mound, walk around PLEASE.
The Adena people were the first Native Americans to build ceremonial mounds. In other parts of the world, ceremonial burials had occurred much earlier. The Egyptian pyramids date to 2700 BCE; in England, stone chambers called barrows were used as early as 2000 BCE; between 1700 and 1400 BCE, keirgans were used in central Siberia; and the burial mounds of the Choo Dynasty in northern China date to 1000 BCE.
We know little about how or why the mounds were built. Historian Otis Rice suggests these early Americans "built mounds over the remains of chiefs, shamans, priests, and other honored dead." For their "common folk," the Adenas cremated the dead bodies, placing the remains in small log tombs on the surface of the ground. Virtually all of these graves have been destroyed by nature and later settlement. Therefore, the more substantial mounds are our only physical records of Adena burials.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Na nzzb pna va gur ebbg fgehpgher bs n snyyra gerr.