#effigy mounds

[memewhore]

I'm still looking for (and finding!) forgotten/unknown prehistoric Native American burial and ceremonial mounds in my area so they can be preserved and protected. These earthworks are ancient, 1,000-2,000 years old. I've expanded my search to the counties surrounding mine, and I might have actually found an animal effigy mound. It's hidden under tree cover. If it is, it looks like what they call a panther shape.

The "body" really resembles some of these and as you can see, they can have curved tails...

Ohio has very few known effigies, and they're pretty far from this area. I REALLY hope it is, that would be absolutely amazing!🤞

[calicoadventures]

It's October, so it's time to get SPOOKY. Enjoy our adventure this month at Spook Cave and Effigy Mounds National Monument!

[extollingtheeveryday]

[floridamanontherun]

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[ingloriousweasel]

Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio.

[ancientorigins]

Uncoiling across the Ohio landscape, this 1,300-foot serpent effigy intertwines secrets that span millennia. Is it a calendar, an altar, or a cosmic connection? Can its celestial alignments unveil the secrets of the ages?

[mejakeme]

[dejahisashmom]

Who Made the Serpent Mound, the Largest Snake Geoglyph in the World? - Historic Mysteries

Who Made the Serpent Mound, the Largest Snake Geoglyph in the World? – Historic Mysteries

Author’s Note: Being a native Ohioan, this is one of the most amazing things to look at & experience firsthand. There’s a certain kind of energy there that’s unlike any other. How y’all enjoy!!! https://www.historicmysteries.com/serpent-mound/

[stankhead]

Beaver Effigy Pipe (circa A.D. 200-400)  Pipestone with mother of pearl and bone inlay. Hopewell Culture, from Tremper Mound in Scioto County, Ohio.

via. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa

[one-in-boots]

Those SpongeBob popsicles are so fucked up man. The demographic has very little income, so you buy one of those motherfuckers with maybe your last couple of dollars. You open up the little bag, and boom! It's SpongeBob!! Even in effigy, even with one of the eyes in the wrong place, it's him! And his brilliance is magnified in person. It's a magical experience, holding the spungboy in your hand. You cherish him, hold him up to the sun, and you're so taken by this rush of adrenaline in the first few moments of being united with him, you forget why he's here. They want you to eat him. They made you pay to kill fucking SpongeBob. Most folks at this point are thinking "wow, that's fucked up, but I don't need to kill him, I can just keep him and cherish him indefinitely" WROGN!!!! They made him out of fucking ice!!! This form is a very short breath of life before one way or another, Sponebog ends up a little mound of sticky liquid. Now you are faced with the disgusting moral dilemma: if the spoinbop dies either way, is it better for you to kill him, at least getting some joy out of his death via tasty popsicle, or is it more humane to let him live as long as he can? Well, with all factors considered, most folks come to the conclusion l: "spognog's extended living would not be truly "life". He will spend most of this cruel existence as a dripping husk of the sponge he once was. Surely it would be better to put him out of his misery and enjoy a sweet treat.". But once you actually start licking him, you realize how fucked up what you're doing is. It's very different thinking about it happening as opposed to actually doing it. It's like punching a puppy to death. Some folks are made of tougher stuff than you or I, and overcame their squeamishness to give spingburt the warrior's death he deserved. But I'm not built like that. I couldn't bring myself to go through with any of the options, so I sprinted home, crying, and stuffed the frozen sponge into my freezer, where he remains indefinitely. Everytime I go to get an ice cube, It's like seeing a holocaust survivor, and I start to tear up knowing what his friends are going through every day. I fucking payed for this to happen. And everytime I go outside and hear an ice cream truck, I steel myself and buy every sponge they have in stock, to save them. I payed real fucking money to be brought to tears, and for all my goddamn freezer space to be taken up by crude recreations of a yellow rectangle. Everytime this happens, I find myself thinking "surely this is a horrible mistake. Surely a thinking, empathizing human would do everything they can to keep somebody out of my situation", but then I remember that this whole fucking set of events is carefully engineered by the capitalist machine to squeeze out every possible drop of profit, no matter the cost. They made spongepops on purpose. The world we live in is so fucked up.

[calicoadventures]

Enjoy this lazy Sunday morning by watching a nature video taken at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Harpers Ferry, IA!

[speakingofnature]

Red-headed Woodpecker

A walk through Effigy Mounds National Monument in Northeast Iowa offered a showcase of the woodland autumn colors as well as marvelous views of the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River. An added bonus was the sight of dozens of Red-headed Woodpeckers that inhabit these woods.

[uwlmvac]

This intriguing feature was uncovered in 2009 during excavations in a former cultivated field in the Sand Lake Archaeological District near Onalaska. The soil within the feature was dark, like a storage or refuse pit, but the size and shape suggested it was something different--a semisubterranean, keyhole-shaped house. The feature measured about 5.4 by 3 meters (17.9 x 9.8 feet) and consisted of an oval main area and a “ramp” on the east side that extended to the north. It was 36 centimeters (just over 1 foot) deep. The  dashed line shows the rough outline of the feature. Rodent disturbance had obscured part of the boundary.

Within the possible house, a deep basin-shaped feature along the west wall contained a small grit-tempered pottery sherd and two silicified sandstone flakes. Angelo Punctated and Madison Cord-Impressed pottery found within the house-like feature suggested a Late Woodland date, but few other artifacts were encountered as well. Some shell-tempered sherds were found at the top of the feature, but they might have come from a later, unrelated Oneota occupation. No postmolds were discovered in or around the feature, but if they were present, they could have been destroyed by a later occupation at the site or by plowing. A similar basin--possibly a winter house--related to the Late Woodland Effigy Mound culture was excavated in Vernon County in 1996. Link to Cade – Winter House Basin - https://www.uwlax.edu/mvac/past-cultures/specific-sites/site-snippets/?letter=c&term=248784.

[ancientorigins]

Despite over a century of research, there is no conclusive evidence about what the Great Serpent Mound represents, when it was built, and what its true purpose was.