Experts have identified the natives responsible for these mounds as, simply put, effigy mound builders of the woodlands people. They thrived on Madison’s ancient oak savannah, which has long since ...

Effigy Mounds National Monument is located in northeast ... The Moundbuilders were a culture of people that lived mainly in ...

And effigy mounds depicting people, animals or spirits were built from between 700 to 1100 AD. “That’s what Wisconsin’s known for,” said Kurt Sampson, an archeologist who leads mound ...

Sponsored by the Effigy Mounds Initiative and Dodge County Parks Department, a volunteer mound care workday is scheduled from 9 a.m. to about 4 p.m. Saturday at Nitschke Mounds County ...