Mounds and Pyramids of the Americas

  The  Madira Bickel Mound State Archaeological Site  is an  archaeological  site on  Terra Ceia Island  in northwestern  Palmetto ,  Florida ,  United States . Archaeological excavations have established that indigenous occupation reaches back 2,000 years, and across three distinct periods: Manasota, Weedon Island, and Safety Harbor cultures. The people constructed a massive earthwork temple/ceremonial mound from shells, sand and detritus. It is still 20-foot (6.1 m) high, with a base nearly 100 by 170 feet (52 m). Scholars believe that the mound site continued to be of great ceremonial importance to the historic Tocobaga Indians of the surrounding area, who coalesced as a people before European encounter in the late sixteenth century. They survived into the eighteenth century, but disappeared as a tribe due to a warfare. Body of Water Located Next To Mound: Terra Ceia Bay Location:...

  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  Fort Walton Mound  is an archaeological site located in present-day Fort Walton Beach, Florida, United States. The large platform mound was built about 850 CE by the Pensacola culture, a local form of the Mississippian culture. Because of its significance, the mound was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964. Still reduced by time, the massive mound is still 12 feet (3.7 m) high and 223 feet (68 m) wide at the base. It was an expression of a complex culture, built by a hierarchical society whose leaders planned and organized the labor of many workers for such construction. The mound served combined ceremonial, political and religious purposes. At the center of the village and its supporting agricultural lands, the mound served as the platform for the temple and residence of the chief. Successive leaders were buried in the mound and additional layers were added over time. Body o...