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mound, prehistoric earthwork erected over a burial place as a memorial or landmark, a defensive embankment, or a site for ceremonial or religious rites. Such structures are found in many parts of the world, but the name is applied in particular to those of North America, ascribed to a people known as Mound Builders Mound Builders, in North American archaeology, name given to those people who built mounds in a large area from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mts.
..... Click the link for more information. . Sometimes the term is also applied to heaps of community refuse, as in shell mound shell mound, in archaeology, a mound consisting largely of the shells of edible mollusks. It is a kind of kitchen midden found in various parts of the world.
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mound

1. a small natural hill

2. Archaeol another word for barrow

3. an artificial ridge of earth, stone, etc., as used for defence

mound [mau̇nd]

(geology)

A low, isolated, rounded natural hill, usually of earth. Also known as tuft.

A structure built by fossil colonial organisms.

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