Monks Mound

Monks Mound in Cahokia

Monks Mound is the largest pre-Columbian earthwork in America. This 30 tall mound was built around 900 – 655 AD over an earlier, smaller mound.

Kincaid Mounds

Kincaid Mounds

Remnants of a large city that was created and inhabited by the people of the Mississippian culture in the site where a settlement has existed for millennia. This city flourished around 1050 – 1400 AD and since then here have been preserved at least 11 large mounds. The largest mound is 9 m high.

Cahokia

Cahokia

Site of a native American city that flourished around 1050 – 1350 AD. Some 80 man-made mounds remain in the central part of this city that was one of the world’s largest settlements around 1100. The largest and most influential city of the Mississippian culture, the most significant pre-Columbian urban center north of Mexico. Remains of the city contain some outstanding monuments, such as Monks Mond – the largest pre-Columbian earthwork in the Americas.

Cave-In-Rock

Cave-In-Rock

Enormous, shallow cave in the limestone bluff at Ohio River. For millennia it has served as a shelter for local people. The cave with its 17 meters wide entrance is well visible from the river and has been inhabited also by local gangs – river pirates in the late 18th century and later.

Turtle Mound

View from Turtle Mound - the tallest shell midden in United States

The tallest shell midden mound in the United States. Now it is 15 m high, but before the shellrock mining – 23 m high.

Mud Lake Canal

Mud Lake Canal

Large scale prehistoric structure – artificially made canal for canoes to simplify yearly migrations – to avoid rough waters of Mexico Gulf. Canal is 6.3 km long.

Miami Circle

Miami Circle

A circle formed by 24 postholes, made sometimes around 0 – 300 AD. Diameter of this perfect circle is 11.5 m. Postholes are cut in limestone bedrock – a unique feature of Pre-Columbian structures in Florida. Most likely these are remnants of structure built by Tequesta culture and are located in their ancient capital.

Letchworth-Love Mounds

Letchworth-Love Mounds

The tallest prehistoric mound in Florida – 14 m high. Built sometimes around 200 – 900 AD, most likely by Weedon Island Culture.

Horr’s Island archaeological site

One of the oldest settlements and mound burials in this part of the United States. Permanently occupied sometimes around 8000 – 1000 BC, when it was the largest settlement in the area of the south-eastern United States. In one mound the burials were made approximately at 3,400 BC.

Green Mound

One of the largest Pre-Columbian shell midden (waste) mounds in the United States. Once it was 15 m high, now some 12 m high, built approximately in 800 AD.