The Grave Creek mound, one of the most famous "moundbuilder" hillocks in the United States, in the city that took its name from it: Moundsville, West Virginia
Highsmith, Carol M.,
1946-
photographer
still image
graphic
government publication
still image
Digital photographs-Color-2010-2020.
xxu
2015
monographic
2015-05-12
eng
1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
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The heart of the site is the largest of the Adena people's burial mounds. A massive undertaking, the effort required the movement of more than 60,000 tons of earth. Artifacts and exhibits interpreting the lifestyle of the Adena people are displayed in the Delf Norona Museum, adjacent to the 2,000-year old mound. Grave Creek Mound is the largest conical type of any known moundbuilder structures. Its creation took place in successive stages from about 250 to 150 B.C., as indicated by the multiple burials at different levels within the structures. In 1838, road engineers measured its height at 69 feet and its diameter at the base at 295 feet. The first recorded excavation of the mound, by local amateurs, took place in 1838. To gain entrance to the mound, two horizontal tunnels and one vertical shaft were created. This led to the most significant discovery of two burial vaults.
Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).
Forms part of: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
America.
Grave Creek Mound.
Moundbuilders.
Delf Norona Museum.
Adena people.
United States
West Virginia
Moundsville
LC-DIG-highsm- 32041
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.32041
Carol M. Highsmith Archive
(DLC) 00650024
Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-
2015632116
LC-DIG-highsm-32041 DLC
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20150724145019.0
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