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Mound — For other uses, see Mound (disambiguation). Grave Creek Mound, in Moundsville, West Virginia A mound is a general term for an artificial heaped pile of earth, gravel, sand, rocks, or debris … Wikipedia
Mound Cemetery (Marietta, Ohio) — Mound Cemetery Mound U.S. National Register of Historic Places … Wikipedia
Mound Bottom — U.S. National Register of Historic Places … Wikipedia
mound — [maund] n 1.) a pile of earth or stones that looks like a small hill ▪ an ancient burial mound mound of ▪ a small mound of dirt 2.) a large pile of something mound of ▪ There s a mound of papers on my desk. ▪ The waiter appeared with a huge mound … Dictionary of contemporary English
Mound of Immortality — (Russian: Курган Бессмертия, Kurgan Bessmertiya) is the name of several memorials/monuments in several places of the former Soviet Union that commemorate the Soviet soldiers and ordinary citizens who fought and perished during the German Soviet… … Wikipedia
mound-builders — ● mound builders nom masculin pluriel (anglais mound, mont, et builder, constructeur) Populations préhistoriques de l est des États Unis connues par leurs burial mounds (tumulus) … Encyclopédie Universelle
Mound Builders — Mound′ Build ers n. pl. ara the American Indian tribes that, in prehistoric and early historic times, erected burial mounds and other earthworks in the Mississippi drainage basin and SE U.S • Etymology: 1830–40 … From formal English to slang
Mound Builders — ☆ Mound Builders n. a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest … English World dictionary
Mound builder (people) — For other uses, see Mound builder (disambiguation). Monks Mound, located at the Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near Collinsville, Illinois, is the largest Pre Columbian earthwork in America north of Mesoamerica … Wikipedia
burial mound — a mound built over a grave or graves. Cf. barrow2 (def. 1). [1850 55] * * * ▪ archaeology artificial hill of earth and stones built over the remains of the dead. In England the equivalent term is barrow; (barrow) in Scotland, cairn; and in… … Universalium
