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The recent addition of the Book of Mormon issue on this page is appropriate, as the LDS beliefs have significantly contributed to the longevity of the Mound Builder concept. I have clarified and expanded the comment somewhat. One could, of course, point to a large number of other religious and ethnic groups that have been blamed/credited for the mounds (Welsh, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Mayans, etc.) TriNotch 04:12, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Why does it seem that there is a LOT of writing, yet barely any sources? —Preceding unsigned comment added by ROMaster2 ( talk • contribs) 16:08, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Because it's a 1960s style "No one appreciates the Indians" piece supported by a few "early American equivalent" UFO abduction books. The early excavation franchises always sold the recovered pieces as Native American. As is still done in a less official venue.
Steven G. Liggett 07:49, 16 July 2008 (UTC) —Preceding
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I can't write a report with this, it's totally useless, the article needs to be totally rewritten to have more information on culture ans stuff like that and less information on the various minority theories. 74.166.95.229 ( talk) 20:00, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Most of the text sounds like half-cocked preconceptions that cannot be substantiated. Musicwriter ( talk) 01:29, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
A reference has been added to an early Mormon newspaper article which demonstrates the shift from a focus on mound builder works, to Central American stone ruins. The Book of Mormon (with its mound builder setting) had been in print for over a decade at this point.
132.190.12.40 ( talk) 20:49, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
I saw on the History channel a show called "Apocalypse Island", it was about the mayan culture and 2012 (yes, sounds ridiculous...) but on the show it's suggested that the mound builders are descendants of mesoamerican explorers. 169.203.136.2 ( talk) 17:54, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
It's more than a little strong to refer to the Book of Mormon's setting as "Mound Builder". Joseph Smith clearly associated the mound builders with the peoples of the Book of Mormon initially, but other than that, there's no grounds for referring to a "Mound Builder" setting for the Book of Mormon. The most strongly naturalstic/environmentalist theory of Book of Mormon origins would be hard pressed to identify anything "Mound-Builder-y" in the Book of Mormon, aside from the Nephites who built buildings and temples. Givens' By the Hand of Mormon has pretty solid account of the shift in Smith's vision of Book of Mormon peoples from the Mound Builders to Mesoamerica, but there's no evidence for a Mound Builder setting in the text of the book. 108.197.32.152 ( talk) 04:01, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
The earliest known name on maps from the late 1600s for the Tennessee River was "Kalli-mako" - this word in the Itza Mayan dictionary published by the National Autonomous University of Mexico means "House of the King" - both cultures used identical stone box graves - there is a Mayan connection. valkyree 19:45, 7 March 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Valkyree ( talk • contribs)
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Something that would significantly benefit this article is a map of the extent of the mound builder culture. I haven't been able to locate a public domain one, but if anybody has the skills (I don't) to create one, it would be much appreciated Grey Wanderer ( talk) 22:52, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
I don't think we need to duplicate all of these maps on this main page, all the reader has to do is go to the specific page for each specific culture.
Heironymous Rowe ( talk) 16:35, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Can info be added here about the giant Human remains found in some mounds. The info has been deleted from the Giant (mythology) page, (check the revisions). (comment by user:156.34.178.145
Anyone interested in ancient sources of information about larger people (giants) and mound builders and other interesting aspects of ancient history can to go to Russian, Siberian, Mongolian, Chinese, Japanese, Javanese, Indian, Sumerian, Babylonian, Hebraic, Persian, Arabic, Syriac, Greek, Scandinavian, Celtic, Baltic, Slavic, Polynesian, Melanesian, Maori, Hawaiian, hundreds of North American "Indian" tribes, Meso-American (Maya) and Incan sources for a wealth of information. Do not rely upon "western mainstream scientific" sources - for whatever reason they will not acknowledge the amazing wealth of information from the rest of the world. valkyree 17:46, 7 March 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Valkyree ( talk • contribs)
WP:FRINGE states: "Wikipedia summarizes significant opinions, with representation in proportion to their prominence..." If this is true then why will it not acknowledge the exceedingly vast preponderance of ancient global documentation which is in agreement with what the western scientific community considers fringe? valkyree 17:56, 7 March 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Valkyree ( talk • contribs)
This section was started by a person interested in giant human remains - my responses are appropriate to that initial comment. Not everyone shares your views. Wikipedia is for everyone - not just people with your views. Another area to study is fossil remains of Gigantopithecus - keep in mind an entire skeleton has not been found and western anthropologists make a lot of assumptions they cannot prove - for instance when they find what could be some giant human teeth they immediately assume it was a huge hairy ape. valkyree — Preceding unsigned comment added by Valkyree ( talk • contribs) 20:53, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
It does make sense that modern sized ancient man had no reason to be trying to move around huge carved pieces of rock that weighed several hundred tons each. There are other explanations in all legendary histories found on all continents. If people choose to accept these logical alternate histories as fact then they are being reasonable. valkyree 20:58, 7 March 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Valkyree ( talk • contribs)
Roman works such as at Baalbek were built on top of older structures - it is the older foundational structure underneath the Roman work that contains the huge megalithic blocks. valkyree 21:03, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
I was simply supplying information on the section topic of ancient men of giant stature. My "off-topic" comments are in response to your "off-topic" remarks. I have read many talk pages where there is plenty of discussion like this. Your over-reactions threatening to block me for responding to someone's honest question are inappropriate. valkyree 04:48, 8 March 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Valkyree ( talk • contribs)
Another source of valuable information for the original topic of giant human remains found in mounds by early settlers is the online book entitled The History of Tennessee by John Haywood pub. 1823. It is available at archive dot org. valkyree 04:52, 8 March 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Valkyree ( talk • contribs)
I removed the following lines from the introductory paragraphs:
"early cultures distinctly separate from the historical Native American tribes extant at the time of European colonization of North America. The historical Native Americans were generally not knowledgeable about the civilizations that produced the mounds."
These statements do not reflect current archaeological or anthropological research on North American mound builders. It is not true that mounds were built by people "distinctly separate from the historical Native American tribes". There is in fact much evidence for continuity in the use of mound sites into the contact and post-contact historic period, particularly for Mississippian sites in the Southeast. The historic Creek are thought to be descended from Mississippian peoples who constructed mounds across Alabama and they continued to use and revere these mound sites until (and even after) their forced removal west.
When Euro-American settlement moved into the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys in the late 18th and early 19th c. they mostly came in contact with heterogeneous Native American groups that had been displaced from the east coast. These groups were made up of displaced individuals from many cultural and language backgrounds, who had little traditional knowledge of the new areas they inhabited. This led to the myth of the "mound builders" as somehow different from the "Indians" the new Euro-American settlers were actively trying to remove from desirable lands. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.160.218.42 ( talk) 20:31, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Alerted WP:FTN about the large amount of material I removed as a violation of WP:UNDUE. 128.59.171.10 ( talk) 20:02, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Move. We have clear consensus that this is the primary topic. The title will be capitalizes as proposed per the rough consensus in this discussion. Cúchullain t/ c 21:38, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Mound builder (people) →
Mound Builders – As this is the
primary topic, there is no need for a dab on the name. Aside from link counts here at Wiki, every single link for at least the first 10 pages of
Google results is for these Indian people or (much less commonly) similar peoples in South America. Usually capitalized. Usually spaced. The hatnote dab is already prepared, linking to the other much less notable articles sharing the name. —
LlywelynII 15:17, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
The mounds were not built for "ceremonial" purposes, they were almost exclusively built to protect against floods. Nearly all of the mounds were either built in floodplains or next to major rivers like the Mississippi, which experienced annual flooding, this is no coincidence.
Nowhere in this article does it mention or cite a source which explains this. The article even goes as far as to point out that they were all built near major rivers, but doesn't go any further than that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.76.216.153 ( talk) 16:07, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
The Walam Olum may be a hoax, but John Heckewelder reported already in 1818 (!) in his book „Account of the History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations who once inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighboring States“ (Philadelphia, 1818) the narratives by the Lenni Lenape about the Talligewi/ALLIGEWI. [ → http://books.google.de/books?id=rWxMyFEbAuYC&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false] -- 109.193.152.145 ( talk) 22:05, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
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I have to agree with the IP editor who keeps trying to change
Some Mormon writers have considered the Book of Mormon narrative a description of the mound-building cultures; [1] other Mormon apologists argue for a Mesoamerican or South American setting. [2]
to
Some Mormon writers have considered the Book of Mormon narrative a description of the mound-building cultures; [3] while others argue for a Mesoamerican or South American setting. [4]
It's completely unclear why the two sources are respectively labelled "writers" and "apologists". Bruce Porter is a likelier candidate for the "apologist" label, if it's even necessary, which I don't think it is. (Not to mention that the second source there is a college term paper for a class — not even a thesis. Not really a reliable source.) Schazjmd (talk) 22:44, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
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In the section "Chronology", sub-section "Archaic era", it is mentioned that
"Horr's Island, Florida, now a gated community next to Marco Island, when excavated by Michael Russo in 1980 found an Archaic Indian village site. Mound A was a burial mound that dated to 3400 BCE, making it the oldest known burial mound in North America"
But I could not found any substantial evidence that this IS the Oldest known Burial Mound in North America. Yes, it was discovered by Micheal Russo but there are 0 articles suggesting that it is the oldest known burial mound in North America. So I am proposing that the sentence is removed unless someone else can present a better citation for the claim.
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I think there are mounds that have been man made in the old world Europe Asia and Africa but there is no mention of those people on this article — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.222.180.90 ( talk) 15:44, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
Would need attribution to Bat Creek Stone However, "Despite the preponderance of archaeological evidence that these mound complexes were the work of sophisticated Native American civilizations," this fact has been "obscured by the Myth of the Mound Builders". [1] The Myth of the Mound-builders is a damaging belief that discredits Native American peoples by claiming they were not the creators of the phenomenal mounds, and another group of people, frequently referred to as a "Vanished Race", are responsible for their creation and persisting splendor. This belief was influential and "adopted by many Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries". [2] The reasons are complicated for the popularity of this obfuscation of the facts of Native American societies, but it is clear that it reflects the sentiments of European settler colonialism. [3] Historian Sarah E. Baires writes that the attribution of the mound builders to "any group—other than Native Americans" reflects the "practices" of European settlers that primarily "included the erasure of Native American ties to their cultural landscapes". [1] The forced removal of Native peoples from their land and the severing of Native people from their heritage was partially enacted by "destroying indigenous pyramid mounds" and "The creation of the Myth of the Mounds". [3] [1] These acts are a form of cultural genocide by European colonizers which enabled settlers "to make way for the movement of 'new' Americans into the Western 'frontier'". [1]
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Doug Weller talk 12:43, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
Should we be calling Charles Whittlesey (geologist) an "archaeologist" in that section? Archaeology as a discipline did not really exist at that time. He was more of a gentleman " antiquarian", and technically a geologist as our article title defines him. Our own article on him does not call him an archaeologist. He iro 17:33, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
"The Mound Builders’ sophisticated societies are evidenced by their impressive earthen structures, which remain as monuments to their cultural and engineering process." I Think 'process' wants to be 'prowess'. So either the writer didn't know the difference, or his composing software "helped" him. 73.134.183.13 ( talk) 23:12, 19 April 2024 (UTC)