Platform mound
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A platform mound is any earthwork or mound intended to support a structure or activity. It typically refers to a flat-topped mound, whose sides may be pyramidal.
The Kincaid site in Massac County, Illinois, showing platform mounds. Illustration by artist Herb Roe.
A diagram showing the various components of Eastern North American indigenous ceremonial substructure mounds
Temple Mound at Ocmulgee National Monument
Earthworks (archaeology)
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In archaeology, earthworks are artificial changes in land level, typically made from piles of artificially placed or sculpted rocks and soil. Earthworks can themselves be archaeological features, or they can show features beneath the surface.
Offa's Dyke, Britain
A survey of a Hopewell enclosure; Newark Earthworks in Ohio, U.S.
Great Serpent Mound in Ohio
An 11th-century hill fort: Bielsko-Biała, Poland