Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds

The Kingsley Bend mounds are a fairly representative sample of those built by the people of the Effigy Mound Culture between A.D. 700-1000. Excavation of other burial mounds quite similar to these has provided most of what archeologists know about the people who built them. These people lived by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild vegetable foods, and they practiced little if any agriculture. Mounds such as these usually contained only a single burial, but some have been found with upwards of a dozen burials. Artifacts such as flint tools and clay pots were seldom included with the burials. Archeologists have not yet accurately determined the significance of the various animal and geometric shapes in which the mounds were built.

Newport, Wisconsin · United States