Looking into The Great Mound at Mounds State Park in Anderson, Indiana. Photo by Mike Luoma.

Ancient Astronomical Earthworks of the American Midwest

Celestial Alignments and Embanked Enclosures in Indiana’s Mounds State Park

What little we know about the Adena and Hopewell indigenous cultures of the pre-contact North American Midwest we have gleaned from what remains of their many mounds and earthworks. There is still much to be learned. The earthworks have not…