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Scattered across Wisconsin, effigy mounds are fragments of an ancient culture spanning from about 400 to 1200 AD. To the unobservant eye, they only appear to be elevated land. But the mounds are what ...
That’s according to Wisconsin Historical Society ... t built long after their arrival. But the effigy mounds are peppered throughout Madison’s landscape, and especially on UW-Madison’s ...
Wisconsin–and particularly the “four lakes” area around Madison–has the highest concentration of effigy mounds in North America and probably the world. Hidden almost right beneath our feet ...
A group of Madison residents who are hoping ... parking lot for much of the 20 th century. Wisconsin is known for these ancient Indigenous burial mounds, according to archeologists.
Any ground disturbance of an ancient Indigenous mound in Wisconsin requires state approval ... She said there are several uncatalogued effigy mounds documented by archeologist TH Lewis in the ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Proposed state legislation could end a long legal fight over Native American effigy mounds in Dane County. The bill would force the Wisconsin Historical Society to allow the ...
We joined more than 100 other people from Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota who probably had their own personal stories and passions about Effigy Mounds. The rally was the brainstorm of Scott Boylen ...
The Wisconsin Department of Justice ... Many ancient burial mounds have been destroyed over the past centuries. A group of Madison residents who are hoping the state can intervene in the city ...