Sentences with phrase «earthen mounds»

A fortified town with seven earthen mounds, Etowah was the political and Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a
And between A.D. 1000 and 1300, Cahokians built more than 120 earthen mounds as landmarks, tombs, and ceremonial platforms.
Beginning about 6000 years ago, these steppe people herded cattle and other animals, buried their dead in earthen mounds called kurgans, and may have created some of the first wheeled vehicles.
About 600 kilometers north of Lima, an imposing earthen mound looms over the sea.
So Beck and colleagues trained magnetometers on the earthen mound, which revealed a startling contrast between the magnetic properties of the soil and unusual structural frames beneath it.
Among these are the ancient, man - made Silbury Hill, a 10 - story earthen mound near Avebury, and the equally puzzling prehistoric stone towers (or «brochs») in Glenelg, Scotland, whose purpose has yet to be fathomed.
rather than sinking into the floor space of the room, «kuhfladen», a single story dwelling, appears to grow from an earthen mound.
His «Human Bonsai — Freedom of Deformity — Deformity of Freedom» (1979) was particularly chilling; from an earthen mound grew phallic worms, all chained and bound to each other.
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