Giant Mounds Found All Around the Earth! b4in.org/h4V2 Ancient mounds are found around the world. Similar construction. Their purpose is sometimes burial and other times for some sort of supposed sacrifice or storage, living quarters or the like. Tumulus: A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds, Hügelgräber or kurgans, and can be found throughout much of the world. A cairn (a mound of stones built for various purposes), might also be originally a tumulus. A long barrow is a long tumulus, usually for numbers of burials. The method of inhumation may involve a dolmen, a cist, a mortuary enclosure, a mortuary house or a chamber tomb. Mounds: In the archaeology of the United States and Canada, the term “mound” has specific and technical connotations. In this sense, a mound is a deliberately constructed elevated earthen structure or earthwork, intended for a range of potential uses. In European and Asian archaeology, the word “tumulus” may be used as a synonym for an artificial hill, particularly if the hill is related to particular burial customs. While the term “mound” may be applied to historic constructions, most mounds in the United States are pre-Columbian earthworks, built by Native American peoples. Native Americans built a variety of mounds, including flat-topped pyramids or cones known as platform mounds, rounded cones, and ridge or loaf-shaped mounds. Some mounds took on unusual shapes, such as the outline of cosmologically significant animals. These are known as effigy mounds. Some mounds, such as a few in Wisconsin, have rock formations, or petroforms within them, on them, or near them. (Wisconsin is significant as local tribes ancestors reported that they were not the ones mining copper there, but the “white men” who were there first. (See my post on copper mining giants) How do you suppose man around the world was designing the same structures over and over again and again before their cross-ocean seafaring days, hmm?? More with many illustrations and photos b4in.org/h4V2
Posted on: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:27:16 +0000
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