While raking behind her home in Clarkston Michigan the 1970's, my grandmother uncovered an Adena point. I have identified it as having come from the lower, smaller surface expressed portion of the Onondaga formation, quite a distance by foot from her home, and positioned perfectly at a hunting ground "bottle neck". She recently passed, and it now belongs to me.
I’m pretty sure the small town where I grew up in Michigan has at least one burial mound. When they expanded the neighboring subdivision, they preserved it by turning it and the surrounding area into a small park.
I live in Scioto County. We have a mound in our small town and Serpent mound is about an hour away. We keep our mound fenced in so no one can walk on it and its just an unspoken law that no one ever vandalises the mound in town. It's small but its beautiful.
Live in Cincinnati. The earthworks were said be massive...there were some in Portsmouth too! All over this valley. Serpent Mound is an hour away from me as well. I want to visit it one day!
Dont forget pawpaws as fruits :) I have pawpaw trees next to my persimmon trees, all wild. I live up in the hills of Chillicothe, love the heritage of the land here
We have a bunch of those around our property so my brother and I got a few buckets full and took them to a local winery and they gave us a few bottles of what they made from it for our trouble and it was delicious so if you have some time on ur hands you might wanna try it
Ohio is just LOADED with adena/ hopewell culture. Im from southwest indiana and have been to great circle earthworks ,fort ancient , hocking hills and flint ridge. You just got a feeling at these places that’s soothing and mystical. We have Angel Mounds , Newburg indiana and I’ve also been to Cahokia mounds near St. Louis. But the greatest thing I’ve ever seen was a archeological artifact show. I’m 56 and bern hunting artifacts since I was a teen the artifact show was literally mind blowing. Couldn’t imagine live in Chillicothe 😲
@@RobHowell1 You should visit Chillicothe and go to mound city! Talk about soothing and mystical.. I take my shoes off and walk barefoot there because I feel I should lol
Nice, keep making these videos. This video really helped me with my school project, so I encourage you to keep on making these videos to help other students with their research.
That pipe is the Olmec Maiz God. The stem represents a corn cobb coming out of the top of his head. The biforecated hair represents the Olmec Maiz God. The ear spools show high status. The motif on his pants is an Olmec smoke or cloud Glyph.
Very interesting, thank you. It does look like many sites have been lost as you say - which equates to much knowledge about Adena culture lost. Additionally, there seems to be a strong confirmation bias among modern archeologists: if a sword is found, or writing, or iron tool, it is discarded because "we know" Adena and Hopewell didn't have such things - therefore such items mostly sit in private collections waiting for our understanding to catch up.
I got obsessed with stone tools and the absolute mind boggling amount of them that are in the Ohio valley. I feel the trade of flint ridge chert is remarkably understated. In a time where there was no monetary system unique and beautiful objects were worth more. With the widespread area that their arrowheads and knives have been found I think groups came to them to trade for their unbelievably beautiful stone tools. That they didn’t have to hunt and gather the way most did back then. This video didn’t mention the quarries still in use today. You can still dig in the same pits that they dug in and can have these raw stones. Not only that but I feel that other groups that surrounded that area began to do the same thing only not having access to the chert an industry of tool making became widespread. Any group walking to trade with the Adena people would have to travel through their territory and then they could trade with them as well. This would give the people living nearer to the quarry the free time to build these earthworks. Some of them were 500 feet long and 33 feet high. Not just some small hill, it would’ve taken a very large group to build such structures. I feel that the history of these amazing people is not getting the credit they deserve. They weren’t dummies. They had the same brains we do and the ability to create and dream and build. I have so much more to say on the matter but I’ll shut up now.
No. You have heard wrong or follow too many internet Dr Dementoesque videos and creators and your mind is warped by those kinds of fictions. Giant humans never existed. Ever. Any pictures you see of giant skeletons are photoshopped. Why would someone hoax this? Boredom? Money? Lol You name it. But giants never existed and you need to focus your time and mental energy on reality.
There's no way to tell now unless maybe with lydar? Very few mounds remain untouched , there were typically dozens in proximity to the others. They have been demolished by farming, road work, cover ups and railroads. Even those that are "protected" in parks have been " rebuilt" and aren't functional anymore like they were built to be.
Edgar Cayce said that Atlantean refugees settled in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana and were later called the mound-builders by modern humans. Wouldn't it be some crazy shit if the Mormons were right all along? Source: ruclips.net/video/dzdDZ3t10so/видео.html
@@missourimongoose8858 it is Christ’s church restored in preparation for His second coming. Every year more evidences surface of the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.
@@Thehaystack7999 no sorry man but believing in a con artist reading golden tablet out of a hat is to far lol the native americans were not jews and its crazy I have to say that when DNA exists
@@missourimongoose8858 exactly. More evidences are available. Studying that book over and over my whole life and I still learn more, with recent archaeological discoveries, dna testing, and understanding the book through Hebrew studies is amazing. Read it.
They were enslaved the teepee is a sacrificial covering they knew about the us they themselves even said they knew it was just a matter of time before they came and when they came there were as many Indians here as you and me now mass genocide as a matter of fact the ground became 15 degrees colder after they murdered them !! They were farmers of corn Aztec priest ruled all of us Egypt never starved from famine they had bands of Indian slaves 98 percent of people were slaves they made it here and druids trained by Rome have sacrifices here and there too .they knew they knew about the us
One thing after watching this video that I need to say, is this… It’s really not correct to portray the people that lived during this time, whether they be the Adena or the Hopewell as animal skin clad savages. They actually had the ability to weave and make cloth, so why are people still portraying them as wearing animal skins? Also, some of the images that you used in this video don’t represent who the Adena were. When are Americans and archaeologists going to work the hell up and realize that these people actually had a culture and a civilization that was more advanced than we think? Probably never. also, a few details in the video are incorrect. Specifically, they did not only use broad projectile points with an Atlatl. They also used more narrow, lanceolate points. they also have the ability to make weapons out of metal which would have been a copper or brass alloy. I understand this statement is controversial and I don’t really care if people agree with it or not. It happens to be true. I know people who have found these objects at Adena archaeological sites. Still, the discovery of a number of these items has been kept hush-hush. Why? It’s also a fact that the Adina people who were subsequently succeeded by the group of people we called a Hopewell culture had located sites where gold and silver could be extracted. Also, red and yellow ocher. Why is this never talked about her mentioned in any archaeological context? Also, the comment about raptors is not entirely true. I’m gonna say something else controversial just because I can. Some of the images that are made out of hammered, copper or mica are not raptors. They are parrots or parakeets. That’s right. Because the climate was different several thousand years ago in North America. This is all such BS. Although I enjoyed the video this guy along with so many others has continued to tell the same stories that people have been telling for the last 70 years. Nothing has been updated. No new information is being put out other than they are finally excepting that The ancestors of native Americans had the ability to smelt metal and make goods out of it. They had an entire civilization that was a lot more advanced, and complex than most modern archaeologists, and especially corporate sponsored institutions like the Smithsonian will ever admit. If you wanna see some of the good stuff, they’ve got it locked up in their bolts. They don’t have everything though. We really need to do better.
Hey, man! Glad you enjoyed the video! That's so cool! :D There are so many mounds all over North America. People probably drive over a bunch of them everyday without even knowing it.
It is believed that mammoths may have lived up until 5,000 years ago (3000 BCE), so I don't think the Adena culture (800 BCE) would have witnessed these creatures. However, it is likely that their ancestors did, and that they learned about them through oral traditions.
@@ancestraltravels1201 I understand what academics believe, but I have long ago shed much of my faith in their ability to get things right. Considering these ditches are about the size of a mammoth or two pulling a tool behind them, I believe they were used by the adena to make the earthworks. I could be wrong though, but I have very little faith in the academic historians on Native American issues. The natives constantly tell them that they are wrong and they won't even listen.
@@drewhanna9057 You are correct in pointing out the fact that many archaeologists disregard the voices of native peoples. This is an egregious issue that is rooted in white supremacy, and it needs to be rectified. However, there just isn't evidence which proves that mammoths were contemporaneous with the Adena culture. Furthermore, there is absolutely zero proof that humans ever domesticated the woolly mammoth, so it is highly unlikely that these animals were used as beasts of burden (anywhere in the world).
@@ancestraltravels1201 the evidence is in their art. They made effigy pipes of elephants, mounds in the shapes of elephants and so on. How is this not evidence? I am just curious what your standard for evidence is.
@@ancestraltravels1201In Florida fossils of mammoths with arrow heads and spears in them have been found, we don't have an earlier recorded civilization then the Adena, do we ?
"Mounds" are constructed using "engineered soil". Not only did they engineer "growing" or agricultural soil as we know from accounts and some of the work of Charles C. Mann. According to research done by the University of Indiana recently, they strongly suggest the Adena and Hopewell were contemporaries. And also some Earthen structures were associated solely for the Hopewell Exchange System and major trade and the manufacturing of crafts and goods on an industrial level.
It's weird, it sounds like they really were abnormally big and tall. I read some very reputable stuff of them being 7ft and they definitely had a weird, vertically tall skull. They're the people (skeletons) who started all this "giant" stuff in America and possibly who the later natives were emulating by deforming their skull. I think it actually has its origins in the Adena who were genuinely a little different and taller based on everything I read. I don't think I entered any whacky territory or got bad info. Unfortunately I think the exaggerating of their height has turned people away from the fact. I imagine their diet of meat and nuts was extremely healthy and could grow someone better than crops, maybe they shrunk with the three sisters lifestyle. It's a shame that their appearance is skipped to avoid being associated with the nutty people who wanna believe in giants when they might've been believable giants.
It can also fertilize seeds when placed on the mound during lightning strikes or during certain astrological alignments ( source: Seed of Knowledge, Stone of Plenty, John Burke). Some seeds could yield 400 times the normal amount of crops!!!! A Skelton was unearthed from s mound with a kernel of corn thousands of years old, they planted it and it grew and still produced many times over, more than any normal corn kernel ...after that long!
There's some credence this valley was the hub for the giants (7-14 ft tall). In the 1400's, it is reported that an exploration team (I want to say they were they Spaniard) traveling in the Amazon and told tales of people being of great heights, 7-10ft tall. 100 years later when they went back: the whole society was gone and everything was overgrown.
I'm from 80 miles south of Cahokia and we have a big bluff behind our house with a bunch of native paintings, video on my channel if anyone wants to see them
Think about how much food came from the natives, corn, potatoes, squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, avocado's, cassava, they harvested acorns, chestnuts, hickory nuts, walnuts and had heard of buffalo, eastern elk whitetail deer and imagine how big catfish, trout, salmon and other fish used to be and in great numbers so it's really not hard to believe that at least part of the year enough food would be around for building projects, lookup poverty point in Louisiana if you would like to see how much hunter gatherers could build
I live in moundsville wv home of the grave Creek mound.everyone I know that pays attention to the area we live in believe that the taught history of the mound builders is wrong.its all guessing.
The Adena earthworks reminds me of Julius Ceasar's earthworks, and fortifications. I wonder if they were more militaristic than a consent orientated society like you mention. Any hints of authoritarianism in their society?
Not much, if any, evidence of authoritarianism. Even the Hopewell that made so much in terms of artistic items seem to have reserved those for ceremonial use only, and the high-status people's actual living space seemed pretty egalitarian. You might be big enough of a deal to go to a large ceremonial gathering with your regalia, but your house wasn't much different than the next person. As for military purposes, there is basically no evidence of defensive fortifications at these geometric sites. No post molds for palisade walls, no remains of battle, etc. They LOOK defensive, however, so much so that the "Fort Ancient" culture was named as such based on that assumption.
So many things in this video that you state as fact aren't actually known for certain. This is a very common error. One should say "It is believed that the Adena did this" or "Evidence shows that they did this."
The mound builders did not carry dirt in baskets, for years, in order to build these mounds. That is about the stupidest theory that anyone could come up with. When you do the math, on how much these structures weigh, you soon realize, that this is impossible. It takes a little critical thinking. About 30 seconds, of critical thinking, and a calculator.
Mayans I just found these exact markings on South America using google maps Each marking was cut next to a shadow of something turned to dust. They stand for atomic bombs
North American prehistory tends to get neglected in popular culture, and I really just wanted this video to discredit the narrative that North America was an "untamed" and "savage" wilderness prior to the advent of European colonists. Pre-Columbian America was home to exceptionally diverse and complex cultures which deserve to be recognized! I will definitely make some more videos covering the Pre-Columbian Americas.
Thank you so much. ❤❤❤ great source of information. I wanted to let you know that it's pronounced hortA culture. Not hortY culture. Google sandy hill adena. I live in Cambridge
There was 4 great civilizations in the Americas also a language that has not been named yet I'll just call it 'Reformed Egyptian' found on plates in 1823 in New York that tell the history(5th-ish century) of the ppl/civilization that has recently been rediscovered in the Ohio & Grand canyon.... I have 2 much free time & a CrAzY imagination 😅
Sorry but you need actual facts about the Mounds, their function, and how they were built. They didn't use them as burial Mounds. The only reason we think this is because when the Spanish came and wiped out these natives. They stuffed their dead bodies and mass Graves within these Mounds for further desecration. History is controlled by the victors of war. It's the furthest thing from the truth.
Who are you? Bet the answer you give is what you know by the revised writings of ancient d3@d men who never gave life . The awakened hear him praise himself for the life his Mama gave him, as he seeks to use the natural womb with the d3@d spirits of men just as the early Christians did.
They were black if you study genotypes you’ll understand most of y’all weren’t even on the planet when this was going on.. Anything older than 2,000 years was black folk.
haha,, wrong! look up ancient earth works! they built massive complexes! mounds are just all mainstream archeologist talk about. sadly, most earthworks are gone.
Actually many of the sites have a precise geometry often on a large scale. Geometric shapes like circles, squares, parallelograms and octagons are featured. Circles are often perfect circles and the squares, perfect squares. Many sites also feature solar alignments and track the moon through it's 18 year cycle. As for their lifestyle, religion, etc we can really only speculate. But these amazing earth work structures are proof that they weren't your basic hunter gatherers. They were intelligent, organized and capable of building and designing these sites with great precision, and they did it without any of the modern instruments that our society would require.
While raking behind her home in Clarkston Michigan the 1970's, my grandmother uncovered an Adena point. I have identified it as having come from the lower, smaller surface expressed portion of the Onondaga formation, quite a distance by foot from her home, and positioned perfectly at a hunting ground "bottle neck". She recently passed, and it now belongs to me.
I’m pretty sure the small town where I grew up in Michigan has at least one burial mound. When they expanded the neighboring subdivision, they preserved it by turning it and the surrounding area into a small park.
I live in Scioto County. We have a mound in our small town and Serpent mound is about an hour away. We keep our mound fenced in so no one can walk on it and its just an unspoken law that no one ever vandalises the mound in town. It's small but its beautiful.
There is a very large mound south of Dayton and they have steps to go on top.
Live in Cincinnati. The earthworks were said be massive...there were some in Portsmouth too! All over this valley.
Serpent Mound is an hour away from me as well. I want to visit it one day!
Aztec empire RUNS DEEP IN AMERICA
@@claudiaclaudia936 Try again. Aztecs went from about 900 CE to 1521 CE. Off by 1,000 years.
I'm from Cassville, Wisconsin
And we have many mounds there
A couple of them just in the riverfront park
I love how appreciative most of these comments are...
Dont forget pawpaws as fruits :) I have pawpaw trees next to my persimmon trees, all wild. I live up in the hills of Chillicothe, love the heritage of the land here
We have a bunch of those around our property so my brother and I got a few buckets full and took them to a local winery and they gave us a few bottles of what they made from it for our trouble and it was delicious so if you have some time on ur hands you might wanna try it
@@missourimongoose8858 wow I had no idea! That sounds really good!
Ohio is just LOADED with adena/ hopewell culture. Im from southwest indiana and have been to great circle earthworks ,fort ancient , hocking hills and flint ridge. You just got a feeling at these places that’s soothing and mystical. We have Angel Mounds , Newburg indiana and I’ve also been to Cahokia mounds near St. Louis. But the greatest thing I’ve ever seen was a archeological artifact show. I’m 56 and bern hunting artifacts since I was a teen the artifact show was literally mind blowing. Couldn’t imagine live in Chillicothe 😲
@@RobHowell1 You should visit Chillicothe and go to mound city! Talk about soothing and mystical.. I take my shoes off and walk barefoot there because I feel I should lol
@@taybee50 I love places like that! Thanks it’s on my bucket list lol
Nice, keep making these videos. This video really helped me with my school project, so I encourage you to keep on making these videos to help other students with their research.
Heh, so formal!
Thank you! I'm glad that my video was able to help you out!
That pipe is the Olmec Maiz God. The stem represents a corn cobb coming out of the top of his head. The biforecated hair represents the Olmec Maiz God. The ear spools show high status. The motif on his pants is an Olmec smoke or cloud Glyph.
Very interesting, thank you. It does look like many sites have been lost as you say - which equates to much knowledge about Adena culture lost. Additionally, there seems to be a strong confirmation bias among modern archeologists: if a sword is found, or writing, or iron tool, it is discarded because "we know" Adena and Hopewell didn't have such things - therefore such items mostly sit in private collections waiting for our understanding to catch up.
I still look back at this.
We have a mound in a middle of a pasture near where I live in WNY. It was turned into a cemetery in the 1800's. It stands out.
I got obsessed with stone tools and the absolute mind boggling amount of them that are in the Ohio valley. I feel the trade of flint ridge chert is remarkably understated. In a time where there was no monetary system unique and beautiful objects were worth more. With the widespread area that their arrowheads and knives have been found I think groups came to them to trade for their unbelievably beautiful stone tools. That they didn’t have to hunt and gather the way most did back then. This video didn’t mention the quarries still in use today. You can still dig in the same pits that they dug in and can have these raw stones. Not only that but I feel that other groups that surrounded that area began to do the same thing only not having access to the chert an industry of tool making became widespread. Any group walking to trade with the Adena people would have to travel through their territory and then they could trade with them as well. This would give the people living nearer to the quarry the free time to build these earthworks. Some of them were 500 feet long and 33 feet high. Not just some small hill, it would’ve taken a very large group to build such structures. I feel that the history of these amazing people is not getting the credit they deserve. They weren’t dummies. They had the same brains we do and the ability to create and dream and build. I have so much more to say on the matter but I’ll shut up now.
So happy your getting new subscribers! Also thx again for making this video.
Thank you! I will be releasing more videos soon! I've just been rather busy lately. :D
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I have heard the Adena skeletons that have survived are quite large? 7 ft tall and some taller?
No. You have heard wrong or follow too many internet Dr Dementoesque videos and creators and your mind is warped by those kinds of fictions.
Giant humans never existed. Ever. Any pictures you see of giant skeletons are photoshopped.
Why would someone hoax this? Boredom? Money? Lol You name it.
But giants never existed and you need to focus your time and mental energy on reality.
that part
In the Sequatchie Valley of Tennessee, there were many small mounds with individual burials, but no large ceremonial mounds that I'm aware of.
There's no way to tell now unless maybe with lydar? Very few mounds remain untouched , there were typically dozens in proximity to the others. They have been demolished by farming, road work, cover ups and railroads. Even those that are "protected" in parks have been " rebuilt" and aren't functional anymore like they were built to be.
This was crafted very well. Thank you!
This culture looks to be the same people and time frame which are spoken of in The Book of Mormon. Fits exactly.
That's because that religion was created in modern times lol
Edgar Cayce said that Atlantean refugees settled in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana and were later called the mound-builders by modern humans. Wouldn't it be some crazy shit if the Mormons were right all along? Source: ruclips.net/video/dzdDZ3t10so/видео.html
@@missourimongoose8858 it is Christ’s church restored in preparation for His second coming. Every year more evidences surface of the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.
@@Thehaystack7999 no sorry man but believing in a con artist reading golden tablet out of a hat is to far lol the native americans were not jews and its crazy I have to say that when DNA exists
@@missourimongoose8858 exactly. More evidences are available. Studying that book over and over my whole life and I still learn more, with recent archaeological discoveries, dna testing, and understanding the book through Hebrew studies is amazing. Read it.
There is (was) an Adena Mound in Walpack, New Jersey famous for the Wolfman of Walpack copper beads from upper Michigan..
I've got a bluff behind my house with the Wolfman painted on it over 1000 years ago, video on my channel if u wanna see it and the other paintings
The state of Ohio flooded 57 mounds to create a reservoir and the adjoining Mound State Park
They were enslaved the teepee is a sacrificial covering they knew about the us they themselves even said they knew it was just a matter of time before they came and when they came there were as many Indians here as you and me now mass genocide as a matter of fact the ground became 15 degrees colder after they murdered them !! They were farmers of corn Aztec priest ruled all of us Egypt never starved from famine they had bands of Indian slaves 98 percent of people were slaves they made it here and druids trained by Rome have sacrifices here and there too .they knew they knew about the us
One thing after watching this video that I need to say, is this… It’s really not correct to portray the people that lived during this time, whether they be the Adena or the Hopewell as animal skin clad savages. They actually had the ability to weave and make cloth, so why are people still portraying them as wearing animal skins? Also, some of the images that you used in this video don’t represent who the Adena were. When are Americans and archaeologists going to work the hell up and realize that these people actually had a culture and a civilization that was more advanced than we think? Probably never. also, a few details in the video are incorrect. Specifically, they did not only use broad projectile points with an Atlatl. They also used more narrow, lanceolate points. they also have the ability to make weapons out of metal which would have been a copper or brass alloy. I understand this statement is controversial and I don’t really care if people agree with it or not. It happens to be true. I know people who have found these objects at Adena archaeological sites. Still, the discovery of a number of these items has been kept hush-hush. Why? It’s also a fact that the Adina people who were subsequently succeeded by the group of people we called a Hopewell culture had located sites where gold and silver could be extracted. Also, red and yellow ocher. Why is this never talked about her mentioned in any archaeological context? Also, the comment about raptors is not entirely true. I’m gonna say something else controversial just because I can. Some of the images that are made out of hammered, copper or mica are not raptors. They are parrots or parakeets. That’s right. Because the climate was different several thousand years ago in North America. This is all such BS. Although I enjoyed the video this guy along with so many others has continued to tell the same stories that people have been telling for the last 70 years. Nothing has been updated. No new information is being put out other than they are finally excepting that The ancestors of native Americans had the ability to smelt metal and make goods out of it. They had an entire civilization that was a lot more advanced, and complex than most modern archaeologists, and especially corporate sponsored institutions like the Smithsonian will ever admit. If you wanna see some of the good stuff, they’ve got it locked up in their bolts. They don’t have everything though. We really need to do better.
Where may I find the image shown at 18.03? I am an artist and illustrator and I would like to reference this image.
I live in Cincinnati Ohio and grew up on Adena ruins.
Sources are broken - any chance we can get updated links? Nothing upon a simple Google search
I think I found Adena mounds. I would like to get in touch with the right people so everything can be respected and preserved.
The Mound Builders are not these hybrid people
man this is super interesting i live in Huntington and drove over a removed mound
Hey, man! Glad you enjoyed the video! That's so cool! :D There are so many mounds all over North America. People probably drive over a bunch of them everyday without even knowing it.
@@ancestraltravels1201 whats crazy is right in the spot where the mound is, i always would have a mood change over it like i could feel it had meaning
They have found Adena mounds in the shape of Elephants as well as efigy pipes. It's very likely they used mammoths to create these huge earthworks.
It is believed that mammoths may have lived up until 5,000 years ago (3000 BCE), so I don't think the Adena culture (800 BCE) would have witnessed these creatures. However, it is likely that their ancestors did, and that they learned about them through oral traditions.
@@ancestraltravels1201 I understand what academics believe, but I have long ago shed much of my faith in their ability to get things right. Considering these ditches are about the size of a mammoth or two pulling a tool behind them, I believe they were used by the adena to make the earthworks. I could be wrong though, but I have very little faith in the academic historians on Native American issues. The natives constantly tell them that they are wrong and they won't even listen.
@@drewhanna9057 You are correct in pointing out the fact that many archaeologists disregard the voices of native peoples. This is an egregious issue that is rooted in white supremacy, and it needs to be rectified. However, there just isn't evidence which proves that mammoths were contemporaneous with the Adena culture. Furthermore, there is absolutely zero proof that humans ever domesticated the woolly mammoth, so it is highly unlikely that these animals were used as beasts of burden (anywhere in the world).
@@ancestraltravels1201 the evidence is in their art. They made effigy pipes of elephants, mounds in the shapes of elephants and so on. How is this not evidence? I am just curious what your standard for evidence is.
@@ancestraltravels1201In Florida fossils of mammoths with arrow heads and spears in them have been found, we don't have an earlier recorded civilization then the Adena, do we ?
"Mounds" are constructed using "engineered soil". Not only did they engineer "growing" or agricultural soil as we know from accounts and some of the work of Charles C. Mann. According to research done by the University of Indiana recently, they strongly suggest the Adena and Hopewell were contemporaries. And also some Earthen structures were associated solely for the Hopewell Exchange System and major trade and the manufacturing of crafts and goods on an industrial level.
It's weird, it sounds like they really were abnormally big and tall. I read some very reputable stuff of them being 7ft and they definitely had a weird, vertically tall skull. They're the people (skeletons) who started all this "giant" stuff in America and possibly who the later natives were emulating by deforming their skull. I think it actually has its origins in the Adena who were genuinely a little different and taller based on everything I read. I don't think I entered any whacky territory or got bad info. Unfortunately I think the exaggerating of their height has turned people away from the fact. I imagine their diet of meat and nuts was extremely healthy and could grow someone better than crops, maybe they shrunk with the three sisters lifestyle. It's a shame that their appearance is skipped to avoid being associated with the nutty people who wanna believe in giants when they might've been believable giants.
I really think serpent mound is depicting a seed germinating. It lines up with planting seasons and equinox/solstices
It can also fertilize seeds when placed on the mound during lightning strikes or during certain astrological alignments ( source: Seed of Knowledge, Stone of Plenty, John Burke). Some seeds could yield 400 times the normal amount of crops!!!! A Skelton was unearthed from s mound with a kernel of corn thousands of years old, they planted it and it grew and still produced many times over, more than any normal corn kernel ...after that long!
What about the skeletons of tall people found in these mounds?
There's some credence this valley was the hub for the giants (7-14 ft tall).
In the 1400's, it is reported that an exploration team (I want to say they were they Spaniard) traveling in the Amazon and told tales of people being of great heights, 7-10ft tall.
100 years later when they went back: the whole society was gone and everything was overgrown.
This is great info thanks!
I have found adena artifacts in North east Mississippi predominantly benton artifacts here but alot of adena are here also
much the same down here in northeast TX, southwest Arkansas and northern Louisiana, the Caddo peoples and the proto-Caddo peoples
We have a mound here in Marietta Ohio. It's in a cemetary. It's said to be sacred... I have always been curious the history here...
I'm from 80 miles south of Cahokia and we have a big bluff behind our house with a bunch of native paintings, video on my channel if anyone wants to see them
Send the link
They also used crushed muscle shell in there pots
How did Hunter Gatherers stock pile enough food to build the mounds?
Think about how much food came from the natives, corn, potatoes, squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, avocado's, cassava, they harvested acorns, chestnuts, hickory nuts, walnuts and had heard of buffalo, eastern elk whitetail deer and imagine how big catfish, trout, salmon and other fish used to be and in great numbers so it's really not hard to believe that at least part of the year enough food would be around for building projects, lookup poverty point in Louisiana if you would like to see how much hunter gatherers could build
Feels like the narrator is screaming at you. Good video though.
Thank you very much! Saying that the earth mounds were build with "pure human muscle" is just an assumption of the 21st century man.
They had no beasts of burden and no wheel.
What else were they to build with?
Ropes and pullies still require human muscle to operate lol
I live in moundsville wv home of the grave Creek mound.everyone I know that pays attention to the area we live in believe that the taught history of the mound builders is wrong.its all guessing.
@William Bills yes but very hard to prove..
100% correct it is His- Story. The truth is hidden from us
You are right.
Africa and the Discovery of America by Leo Weiner (1922)
The Adena earthworks reminds me of Julius Ceasar's earthworks, and fortifications. I wonder if they were more militaristic than a consent orientated society like you mention. Any hints of authoritarianism in their society?
Not much, if any, evidence of authoritarianism. Even the Hopewell that made so much in terms of artistic items seem to have reserved those for ceremonial use only, and the high-status people's actual living space seemed pretty egalitarian. You might be big enough of a deal to go to a large ceremonial gathering with your regalia, but your house wasn't much different than the next person. As for military purposes, there is basically no evidence of defensive fortifications at these geometric sites. No post molds for palisade walls, no remains of battle, etc. They LOOK defensive, however, so much so that the "Fort Ancient" culture was named as such based on that assumption.
There were no signs of war back then, nobody had come to colonize us yet .
I live in Gallia county and I believe these earthworks were built by nephilim
This really doesn't do enough justice to the eastern agricultural complex
So many things in this video that you state as fact aren't actually known for certain.
This is a very common error.
One should say "It is believed that the Adena did this" or "Evidence shows that they did this."
The mound builders did not carry dirt in baskets, for years, in order to build these mounds. That is about the stupidest theory that anyone could come up with. When you do the math, on how much these structures weigh, you soon realize, that this is impossible. It takes a little critical thinking. About 30 seconds, of critical thinking, and a calculator.
Mayans I just found these exact markings on South America using google maps
Each marking was cut next to a shadow of something turned to dust.
They stand for atomic bombs
The Adena had use of pachyderms to help make their earthworks.
is this speculation or have you read something? Thats the first ive heard of this idea. but would make since!!
What is the point in saying "at this point" over and over again?
Look into Alber Gallatin
what made you want to take interest in this
North American prehistory tends to get neglected in popular culture, and I really just wanted this video to discredit the narrative that North America was an "untamed" and "savage" wilderness prior to the advent of European colonists. Pre-Columbian America was home to exceptionally diverse and complex cultures which deserve to be recognized! I will definitely make some more videos covering the Pre-Columbian Americas.
10,000 original sites,Surveyed from 1799 to 1843, they would be located by water. They were Celestial, Lunar & Solar.
Speculation......
Thank you so much. ❤❤❤ great source of information. I wanted to let you know that it's pronounced hortA culture. Not hortY culture. Google sandy hill adena. I live in Cambridge
There was 4 great civilizations in the Americas also a language that has not been named yet I'll just call it 'Reformed Egyptian' found on plates in 1823 in New York that tell the history(5th-ish century) of the ppl/civilization that has recently been rediscovered in the Ohio & Grand canyon.... I have 2 much free time & a CrAzY imagination 😅
Both are a good thing! So much history in this place from the times of the mounds and beyond!!
Are African Americans descendants of these people told were African
I would like to say something they did smoke alot of wacky stuff
The mound builders are now “Native Americans”.
smokin on there pack rn
These are black people 😮
No.
The comments are so full of conspiracy theories, y'all ok?
That's what I'm saying.
Sorry but you need actual facts about the Mounds, their function, and how they were built. They didn't use them as burial Mounds. The only reason we think this is because when the Spanish came and wiped out these natives. They stuffed their dead bodies and mass Graves within these Mounds for further desecration. History is controlled by the victors of war. It's the furthest thing from the truth.
Who are you? Bet the answer you give is what you know by the revised writings of ancient d3@d men who never gave life .
The awakened hear him praise himself for the life his Mama gave him, as he seeks to use the natural womb with the d3@d spirits of men just as the early Christians did.
The Mormons say these were the people from the Middle East
They were black if you study genotypes you’ll understand most of y’all weren’t even on the planet when this was going on.. Anything older than 2,000 years was black folk.
@@biggernigga1 lol
Jaredites that originated in the Middle East about thr time of the Tower of Babel. I believe the Book of Ether contains their history.
Jesus people DNA exists and says your wrong lol
@@biggernigga1 they were black people who descended from the loins of Ham.
Welsh Indians.
Wonder if any were creamated alive
Beautiful burial mounds? It a pile of dirt. Does require rocket science to build.
Look at the Serpent Mound in Ohio.
To do that back breaking labor it must have been very important to them.
haha,, wrong! look up ancient earth works! they built massive complexes! mounds are just all mainstream archeologist talk about. sadly, most earthworks are gone.
Actually many of the sites have a precise geometry often on a large scale. Geometric shapes like circles, squares, parallelograms and octagons are featured. Circles are often perfect circles and the squares, perfect squares. Many sites also feature solar alignments and track the moon through it's 18 year cycle.
As for their lifestyle, religion, etc we can really only speculate. But these amazing earth work structures are proof that they weren't your basic hunter gatherers. They were intelligent, organized and capable of building and designing these sites with great precision, and they did it without any of the modern instruments that our society would require.
Mixing bones...no shame
These people had too much time on their hands and little imagination how to use it