The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-feet-long (411 m), three-feet-high prehistoric effigy mound located in Peebles, Ohio. It was built on what is known as the Serpent Mound crater plateau, running along the Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio .

2017年11月3日 · Serpent Mound is the world’s largest surviving effigy mound—a mound in the shape of an animal—from the prehistoric era. Located in southern Ohio, the 411-meter-long (1348-feet-long) Native...

2023年11月27日 · Serpent Mound, located within the Serpent Mound State Memorial, is a National Historic Landmark in Peebles, Ohio. Here, you'll find a Serpent Mound museum with exhibits that delve into the geology of the area.

Skeleton found in ash-bed in the center of Mound. Section of burial mound. Skeleton in grave. View of the northern portion of the park as seen from opposite wall. Picnic grounds at the south eastern corner of the park. Entrance to the park from the Hillsboro Pine.

In the 1880s, Frederic Ward Putnam conducted the first archaeological investigation of the Great Serpent Mound and the surrounding plateau. Subsequent analyses established that the Adena constructed a con-ical mound on the plateau to the south of the Serpent effigy. An Adena, and later, a Fort Ancient settlement were established nearby.

One of the few effigy mounds in Ohio, Serpent Mound is the largest and finest serpent effigy in the United States. Nearly a quarter of a mile long, Serpent Mound apparently represents an uncoiling serpent. Serpent Mound lies on a plateau overlooking the valley of Brush Creek.

Object Description Written on board: "Serpent Mound Park, Adams Co., Ohio. / Peabody Museum Amer. Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. / John Cone Kimball, Photographer, 1887. / 28 -- The Skeleton found on the ash-bed in the centre of the mound, seven feet from the present surface, and one foot from bottom, seen from ...

One skeleton was found on the eastern side of the mound, and four feet from the exterior. As shown in the illustration, the skeleton was extended at full length nearly north and south. At a little greater depth from the top of the mound another skeleton …

Object Description Written on Board: " (?) 1889 / (?) burial hare south of Serpent Md. Ohio / [verso] P1283, x-ref N1314 / Serpent Mound Park / Adams Co., Ohio" Dimensions Overall: 11.43 × 17.145 cm (4 1/2 × 6 3/4 in.)

2021年4月1日 · Several burial mounds are excavated near Ohio's famous Serpent Mound revealing women who were over 8 feet in height when alive and me that exceeded 9 feet.