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By Robert A. Birmingham

Between A.D. seven hundred and 1100 local american citizens equipped extra effigy mounds in Wisconsin than wherever else in North the US, with an envisioned 1,300 mounds—including the world’s biggest identified chicken effigy—at the guts of effigy-building tradition in and round Madison, Wisconsin. those large earthworks, sculpted within the form of birds, mammals, and different figures, have aroused interest for generations and jointly include an unlimited effigy mound ceremonial panorama. Farming and industrialization destroyed each one of these mounds, leaving the mysteries of who outfitted them and why they have been made. the remainder mounds are safe this present day and plenty of may be visited.   explores the cultural, ancient, and ceremonial meanings of the mounds in an informative, abundantly illustrated e-book and guide.
 
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