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I'm going to post some pre-European history for the US and Canada. hehe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_builder_(people)
"The varying cultures collectively called Mound Builders were Pre-Columbian inhabitants of North America who, during a 5,000-year period, constructed various styles of earthen mounds for religious and ceremonial, burial, and elite residential purposes. These included the Pre-Columbian cultures of the Archaic period; Woodland period (Adena and Hopewell cultures); and Mississippian period; dating from roughly 3400 BCE to the 16th century CE, and living in regions of the Great Lakes, the Ohio River valley, and the Mississippi River valley and its tributaries.[1] Beginning with the construction of Watson Brake about 3400 BCE in present-day Louisiana, nomadic indigenous peoples started building earthwork mounds in North America nearly 1000 years before the pyramids were constructed in Egypt."
File:Monks Mound in July.JPG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Upper Nodena Village Visualization
The Upper Nodena Site was a well-demarcated town or village occupying an area of approximately 15.5 acres. It is located on a relict channel of the Mississippi river in northeastern Arkansas and is considered to be a late period Mississippi Valley site suggesting a period of occupation between A.D. 1400-1600. There is some evidence that the town was enclosed by a ditch.It consisted of a ceremonial or 'corporate' complex of two pyramidal mounds, a burial mound, and (possibly) a plaza connecting the mounds and a chunkey field. Dr. Hampson reported a chunkey field that is located south of Mound A and a large plaza, or public square, is located to the west. Houses and cemeteries surrounded the ceremonial area; larger structures situated nearer the complex. Based on the known number of human burials at the site, archaeologists estimate that the town’s population was between 1000 and 1500 at any given time during its 100 years of occupation.
http://withoutbaggage.com/msgs/69/69977/wide_69981_ah5.jpg
http://s637.photobucket.com/user/my...0px-MesaVerdeNationalParkCliffPalace.jpg.html
Puebloan peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Good link below
Native Americans and pyramids
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3178/3027314965_4717e98c24_z.jpg
America - Pyramids
http://www.american-indians.net/empires.htm
Anasazi the "Ancient Ones" (100 B.C. to A.D. 1300)
In the Four-Corners area of the present Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico states was the heartland of the Anasazi people - the "ancient ones" in the Navajo language. Their culture began taking on its distinct characteristics about 100 B.C., but it became by the time of its climax the most extensive and influential by far in the Southwest.
The first stage in the Anasazi development is called the Basket Maker. Over the course of this period the Anasazis developed and refined their ceramics and agricultural skills. Anasazi farming techniques included terraced fields and reservoir-canal irrigation systems.
After A.D. 750 a radical new architectural form has been developed by the Anasazi - the pueblo. This originally Spanish word for town or community has come to be applied to the Golden Age of Anasazi culture, the Pueblo Period, as well as to modern Pueblo Indians who inherited Anasazi cultural traits. Elaborately designed multi-tiered, multi-roomed apartment buildings resulted from this Anasazi breakthrough in technology. Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, started around A.D. 900, with its five stories and 800 rooms was a prime and stunning example.
From about A.D. 1000 - 1300 as Anasazi influence spread outward, the Southwest supported a growing population of builders, farmers, potters, weavers and other artisans. It was a culturally rich, creative time.
We humans love our pyramids! Why don't we all just build one ten thousand feet tall today?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_builder_(people)
"The varying cultures collectively called Mound Builders were Pre-Columbian inhabitants of North America who, during a 5,000-year period, constructed various styles of earthen mounds for religious and ceremonial, burial, and elite residential purposes. These included the Pre-Columbian cultures of the Archaic period; Woodland period (Adena and Hopewell cultures); and Mississippian period; dating from roughly 3400 BCE to the 16th century CE, and living in regions of the Great Lakes, the Ohio River valley, and the Mississippi River valley and its tributaries.[1] Beginning with the construction of Watson Brake about 3400 BCE in present-day Louisiana, nomadic indigenous peoples started building earthwork mounds in North America nearly 1000 years before the pyramids were constructed in Egypt."
File:Monks Mound in July.JPG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Upper Nodena Village Visualization
The Upper Nodena Site was a well-demarcated town or village occupying an area of approximately 15.5 acres. It is located on a relict channel of the Mississippi river in northeastern Arkansas and is considered to be a late period Mississippi Valley site suggesting a period of occupation between A.D. 1400-1600. There is some evidence that the town was enclosed by a ditch.It consisted of a ceremonial or 'corporate' complex of two pyramidal mounds, a burial mound, and (possibly) a plaza connecting the mounds and a chunkey field. Dr. Hampson reported a chunkey field that is located south of Mound A and a large plaza, or public square, is located to the west. Houses and cemeteries surrounded the ceremonial area; larger structures situated nearer the complex. Based on the known number of human burials at the site, archaeologists estimate that the town’s population was between 1000 and 1500 at any given time during its 100 years of occupation.
http://withoutbaggage.com/msgs/69/69977/wide_69981_ah5.jpg
http://s637.photobucket.com/user/my...0px-MesaVerdeNationalParkCliffPalace.jpg.html
Puebloan peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Good link below
Native Americans and pyramids
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3178/3027314965_4717e98c24_z.jpg
America - Pyramids
http://www.american-indians.net/empires.htm
Anasazi the "Ancient Ones" (100 B.C. to A.D. 1300)
In the Four-Corners area of the present Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico states was the heartland of the Anasazi people - the "ancient ones" in the Navajo language. Their culture began taking on its distinct characteristics about 100 B.C., but it became by the time of its climax the most extensive and influential by far in the Southwest.
The first stage in the Anasazi development is called the Basket Maker. Over the course of this period the Anasazis developed and refined their ceramics and agricultural skills. Anasazi farming techniques included terraced fields and reservoir-canal irrigation systems.
After A.D. 750 a radical new architectural form has been developed by the Anasazi - the pueblo. This originally Spanish word for town or community has come to be applied to the Golden Age of Anasazi culture, the Pueblo Period, as well as to modern Pueblo Indians who inherited Anasazi cultural traits. Elaborately designed multi-tiered, multi-roomed apartment buildings resulted from this Anasazi breakthrough in technology. Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, started around A.D. 900, with its five stories and 800 rooms was a prime and stunning example.
From about A.D. 1000 - 1300 as Anasazi influence spread outward, the Southwest supported a growing population of builders, farmers, potters, weavers and other artisans. It was a culturally rich, creative time.
We humans love our pyramids! Why don't we all just build one ten thousand feet tall today?
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