The Great Serpent Mound

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� Adena Calture � 1000-200 B.C.E

� Fort Ancient Culture� 1000-1650AD

� Supposedly Built by the Adena (1000-200 BCE) �

� It is the world's largest effigy mound.

� Raised pile of earth built � Formed as Animal

� Fort Ancient Culture Built ( Before 1200BCE)

The Great Serpent Mound

Located In Ohio , Adams County

Alligator Mound

� 200 Ft Long

� 6 Ft High

•1300 Ft Long• 3 Ft high

• 15 Ft Wide

View from the tower towards the Oval Mound.

� Alignment� Summer solstice

sunset� Winter sunrise� Burned stones at

head

Work Citited

� Fletcher, Robert V., Terry L. Cameron, Bradley T. Lepper, Dee Anne Wymer, and William Pickard, "Serpent Mound: A Fort Ancient Icon?", Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Vol 21, No. 1, Spring 1996, University of Iowa.

� Department of Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "Great Serpent Mound". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/serp/hd_serp.htm (October 2002)