Mounds and Pyramids of the Americas

  The Ormond Mound (a burial mound that can be classified as an earthwork or conical mound and is defined as a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs or remains)  has been preserved as an intact burial mound in eastern Florida. It has been estimated that over 100 individual burials are in Ormond Mound, based on salvage excavations that were conducted in 1982. As more bodies were deposited into the area and were covered with sand and other minerals, the earthwork took its "distinctive mounded appearance".  Most of these remains were laid to rest during the late  St. Johns period , after A.D. 800. The remains were oftentimes buried with their most prized possessions.  Apart from human bones, items found after the site was analyzed included utensils, Indian beads, Spanish trading beads, and pottery sherds. Body of Water Located Next To Mound: Halifax River Location:  29°16′48.5″N 81°3′12.4″W Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormond_Mound

  The  Kolomoki Mounds  is one of the largest and earliest  Woodland period  earthwork mound complexes in the Southeastern United States  and is the largest in  Georgia . Constructed from 350CE to 600CE, the mound complex is located in southwest Georgia, in present-day  Early County  near the  Chattahoochee River . In the early millennium of the Common Era, Kolomoki, with its surrounding villages, Native American burial mounds, and ceremonial plaza, was a center of population and activity in North America. The eight visible mounds of earth in the park were built between 250-950 CE by peoples of the Swift Creek and Weeden Island cultures. These mounds include Georgia's oldest great temple mound, built on a flat platform top; two burial mounds, and four smaller ceremonial mounds. As with other mound complexes, the people sited and built the earthworks according to a complex cosmology. Researchers have noted that se...

  Crystal River State Archaeological Site  is a 61-acre (250,000 m 2 )  Florida State Park  located on the  Crystal River  and within the  Crystal River Preserve State Park . The park is located two miles (3 km) northwest of the city of  Crystal River. The park contains a six-mound complex, occupied from the Deptford period through Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture and up to the Late Fort Walton period.  The copper artifacts came from the  Ohio River  area through a trade network developed by the Hopewell culture that existed at the time. Body of Water Located Next to Mound: Crystal River Location:  28° 54′ 33.3″ N, 82° 37′ 42.81″ W Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_River_Archaeological_State_Park

  Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park  is one of the most important archaeological sites in Florida, the capital of chiefdom and ceremonial center of the Fort Walton Culture inhabited from 1050–1500. The complex originally included seven earthwork mounds, a public plaza and numerous individual village residences. One of several major mound sites in the Florida Panhandle, the park is located in northern Tallahassee, on the south shore of Lake Jackson. The site was built and occupied between 1000 and 1500 by people of the Fort Walton culture, the southernmost expression of the Mississippian culture. The scale of the site and the number and size of the mounds indicate that this was the site of a regional chiefdom, and was thus a political and religious center. After the abandonment of the Lake Jackson site the chiefdom seat was moved to Anhaica, where in 1539 it was visited by the...

  The Pompano Beach Mound , located at Indian Mound Park in Pompano Beach, Florida, in Broward County, is a 100-foot(30 m) wide, 7-foot (2.1 m) tall oval Tequesta burial mound. One of 20 to 50 burial mounds erected by the Tequesta in central to southern Florida,  it is the only surviving Indian burial mound in urban Broward County. Artifacts discovered near the mound suggest the associated village may have been in existence as late as 1763 CE.  Ceramics from the site date from across the three periods of the  Glades culture . Body of Water Located Next to Mound: Lake Santa Barbara Location:  26° 13′ 18″ N, 80° 5′ 33″ W Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompano_Beach_Mound