A typical effigy mound — the effigies date from around ... pretty well blocks a bird’s-eye view. But aerial photos taken in years past and displayed at the monument’s visitors center ...

The men, now both retired from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Sociology and Archaeology Department, believe the cave images tell what might have happened. The Effigy Mound people were among ...

Man Mound located in Sauk County, Wisconsin, is the only human-shaped effigy mound left in North ... thunderbirds and other images from the animal kingdom and the spirit world.

It was the first effigy mound ever to be purchased with preservation ... “They created these images here just as other cultures have created images like the Buddha or Catholic Saints,” he ...

Few animal effigy mounds had been found in South America until now. Shown here, University of Missouri anthropologist Robert Benfer stands near some of the smaller mounds. The mound in the ...

Sampson also organizes groups of volunteers called the Effigy Mounds Initiative to care for many of the mound sites in the ... size to more easily view the photos and maps, Volkert and Sampson ...

Amy Rosebrough explores the mysteries of the effigy mound earthen sculptures. Amy Rosebrough, Archaeologist at the Wisconsin Historical Society, discusses the sacred earthen sculptures created by ...

Lizard Mound, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, is home to 28 effigy mounds — one of the largest and best-preserved collection of mounds in southern Wisconsin. Effigy ...

The Effigy Mound Builders, named for their distinctive burial mounds, constructed permanent communities across the southern two-thirds of Wisconsin, giving Wisconsin more mounds than any other ...

Bill Quackenbush, historic preservation officer with the Ho-Chunk Nation, led a talk about the Kingsley Bend effigy mounds, presented photos of the ... whether an effigy mound is present, thus ...

The Great Serpent Mound, one of the most important prehistoric effigy mound od Adema Culture ... using google earth to scan satellite images for some other project accidentally stumbled on ...

He said needs at other city parks have also played a role in the effigy mound preserve's decline. Boettcher said a contractor was hired to mow grass in the front portion of the preserve and more ...