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Amazon.com: The Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio: mystery of the mound and history of the serpent: various theories of the effigy mounds and the mound builders eBook : Randall, Emilius Oviatt: Kindle Store

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Within the lush Ohio River Valley lies the famous Serpent Mound effigy. It is an earthen mound aligned with the solstices, which rests on the ridge of a meteorite impact crater. This ancient, spellbinding effigy has been the subject of controversy and fascination, but what is so often overlooked, is the fact that this seemingly serpentine mound is not one of a kind.

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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 American structure has been excavated a few times since the late 1800s, but the origens of Serpent Mound are still a mystery. Some estimates place the construction of the National Historic Landmark—also called Great Serpent Mound—at around 300 B.C.

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