Gregory L Little, Ed.D.

Mounds inside the Mound City enclosure with "striping" mowing pattern. This is a National Park Service park just north of Chillicothe, Ohio. It is one of several earthworks locations that comprise the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. The Park Service Rangers here are…

1800's survey of the 60+ mounds at the Aztalan, Wisconsin mound complex. This was a walled fortress directly related to Cahokia in AD 1200.

1983 reconstruction drawings of mound sites in Louisiana. [Louisiana Archaeology journal by John Gibson.]

Two pipes excavated from mound sites in coastal southern North Carolina. The carving and characters on these are pretty interesting. The dates on these could be as early as AD 1200-1300 or as recent as 1600. These are from the UNC archaeology digital collection.…

Ceremonial copper axes excavated from mounds at the Moundville, Alabama complex by C.B. Moore in the early 1900s.

1930's TVA/WPA photos of the excavation and obliteration of the Bessemer, Alabama mound complex.

Stone effigy pipes excavated from mounds at the Moundville, Alabama complex by C. B. Moore in the early 1900s.

Polished stone discs excavated from mounds at the Moundville, Alabama complex in the early 1900s by C. B. Moore.

East 10 Outpost discussion on NAGPRA @East10Outpost . youtube.com/watch?v=iH8NTl…

Can you ID this @farmer_tr ?

My newest Clarence B. Moore report: "Antiquities of the West Florida Coast" (1900).

This past weekend we took a group of 42 to several Native American mound & earthworks sites in Ross County, Ohio. Below is Mill's 1914 survey of the ancient Ross County sites. It would be a difficult task to see all of the remaining sites.

Really good appearances by @lukecaverns on the History Channel series History’s Greatest Mysteries. The episode is on ancient Amazon sites and Percy Fawcett.

Infirmary Mound in Infirmary Mound Park at Granville, Ohio. This mound is very, very well hidden. It was once a massive Adena mound plowed down for several hundred years.

Display signs at the original "Hopewell Mound Group" near Chillicothe, Ohio. Note the "You are here" on the far right of first pic. While 90-some+ percent of the site was essentially obliterated, the ground foliage is used to show some of the locations of the earthworks once…

Silver pendant displaying a cross excavated from a mound south of Charlotte Harbor in Florida by C. B. Moore in the late 1800s. The mound also yielded 3 "Iron or steel" celts, glass and silver beads, along with hornstone lance heads, stone points, and a shark tooth. Numerous…

The extensive trade network of the Ohio Hopewell Culture.

Display sign at Mound 7 in Mound City, Chillicothe, Ohio. The copper artifacts shown on the sign were excavated from the site. The "wand" in the middle was a wood stick covered with copper. A copper mushroom effigy was affixed to the end of the wand.

Bridge entrance to the "Cross Mound" site in Tarlton, Ohio and one of the stone mounds by the mound.