Monks Mound

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

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

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.

Turtle Mound

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

Letchworth-Love Mounds

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

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.

Fig Island shell rings

A group of shell rings – ring-shaped shell middens that are up to 6 meters high. The largest ring has a diameter of some 40 m. These mounds were made some 4400 – 3600 years ago. This might be the most complex system of shell rings in North America.

Weipa shell mounds

Some 600 human-built mounds of shellfish Anadara granosa, including ridges that are several hundred meters long and up to 13 meters high, up to 1,200 years old. Origin and purpose of these structures is not completely clear.

Samford Bora rings

Some of the best-preserved earthen rings – unique ritual structures for male initiation ceremonies. In total, in the eastern part of Australia, there are some 426 such structures. Today there is not much to see in the site.

Ala-Tey burial ground

Burial mound from Xiongnu period from the 2nd century BC – 1st century AD. Here are very rich, unlooted burials of Huns that were created at the period when this culture started the Great Migration and arrived here from some region in Northern China. The burial mound is endangered by the flooding due to hydropower plant and there are on-going salvage excavations to extract the information before it is lost.