It's being considered for UNESCO World Heritage status, about the only useful thing UNESCO or indeed the UN does.
The serpent from above. (Courtesy Ohio History Connection)
It's being considered for UNESCO World Heritage status, about the only useful thing UNESCO or indeed the UN does.
The serpent from above. (Courtesy Ohio History Connection)
For all we know this mound could be the life-long project of one guy with a shovel and a wheelbarrow. Sort of like the Coral Castle.
[[its intentions a mystery.]]
My bet is it was a fancy dung heap
When I built my little garden years ago....I put in a little canal system that is exactly like this.
I’ve been to Serpent Mound. It is impressive.
PFL
I visited here a few years ago. I had a few impressions:
1) the mound echoes the landscape around it. It is on a hill with a river winding below it. You don’t see this in the aerial shots as the image is flattened out from above.
2) I could visualize Indians parading along the top of this “serpent,” enacting ceremonies for rain, marriage, coming of age, etc.
3) I wasn’t sure how much constant grass mowing was wearing down the mound over time.
Used to live near there. There have been interesting developments in the area about the Greater Miami peoples. In the 90’s an excavation was started on a settlement of the people that lived in the area long before the pilgrims ever set foot onto the continent. A few years ago there were several shows made about this mound and its counterpart somewhere near England (Scotland? don’t remember honestly). ONe of the shows also went on to show animal-formed mounds in the Midwest. It was an interesting show as it was my introduction into what LIDAR was doing at that time and how it could rewrite what we know about North America, the Incas, and Aztecs. The one thing I Remember about this mound is that it was not touristy. Yeah, we all knew about it but it wasn’t like it was on the tourist list for places to must see. It was in this parking lot in eighth grade I first got behind the wheel of a car after drinking 2 beers.
[thumbing through my Encyclopedia Britannica] Hmmm, and all along, I thought Delaware was the first state...
Looks like the 18th fairway.....
