USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -For hundreds of years, the ancient Caddo people built earthen mounds in the special places where their leaders and priests lived.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mound Builders Name given to the Native North Americans responsible for groups of ancient earth mounds found in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys. The mounds contain skeletons or ashes with buried ceremonial objects.

Detailed explanation-3: -From about 800 CE, the mound building cultures were dominated by the Mississippian culture, a large archaeological horizon, whose youngest descendants, the Plaquemine culture and the Fort Ancient culture, were still active at the time of European contact in the 16th century.

Detailed explanation-4: -Early archaeologists working to answer the question of who built the mounds attributed them to the Toltecs, Vikings, Welshmen, Hindus, and many others. It seemed that any group-other than the American Indian-could serve as the likely architects of the great earthworks.

Detailed explanation-5: -Archaeologists call those people mound builders. Three important groups of mound builders were the people of the Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian cultures. They built many different types of mounds. Burial mounds were used as graves.