CLAYTON, Iowa - The Sny Magill Unit of Effigy Mounds National Monument is a hidden wonder. A dozen miles downstream from the park's visitor center along the Mississippi River, the path starts with ...

The two large Jelling Mounds have retained their original form. The North mound was constructed over an impressive burial chamber of oak that was cut into an earlier Bronze Age barrow of much smaller ...

Despite this, I found myself living on the Zuni reserve, working for one of the first tribal archaeology programs in North America. When my team came ... interred in large cemeteries composed of ...

Artificial mounds were noted at the northwest side of Lake Brewster in the south part of section 29, Glencoe. They are much scattered – probably ...

The burial mounds at Grand Mound have been a part of Joann Johnson’s family since her grandfather, Fred Smith, purchased the land in 1889. Smith left his home near Rochester when he was 10 years old ...

Nowadays, students on the LSU campus pay little attention to the dramatic, sloping grassy backdrop on their path to class: the more than 6,000-year-old North American earthen mounds. The mounds ...