Ancient Peoples
Those who came before us.
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Legs of Man Mound, Man Mound Park – Baraboo, Wisconsin
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Planting Prairie Grass at Man Mound Park 100 yr. Rededication – Baraboo, Wisconsin
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Man Mound Park – Baraboo, Wisconsin
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Topographic Map of Man Mound County Park – Baraboo, Wisconsin
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Video of Man Mound Park – Baraboo, Wisconsin
On Saturday, August 9, 2008, the Man Mound Archeological Site was rededicated by the organizations that were responsible for its preservation: the Sauk County Historical Society, the Wisconsin Archaeological Society and the Wisconsin Federation of Women’s Clubs.
“Only one effigy mound in the shape of a human being has survived nearly intact. It is located near the base of a high hill in Man Mound County Park, to the northeast of Baraboo. Probably built more than 1,000 years ago, this huge mound is in the form of a walking man who has horns or is wearing a horned headdress, such as a buffalo-horn headdress, which is characteristically worn by Native American shamans in more recent times.” From: Indian Mounds of Wisconsin by Robert A. Birmingham and Leslie E. Eisenberg, p.205.
Odd Wisconsin Archive; In the Strangest of Places
On the Man-Shaped Mounds of Wisconsin by Increase A. Lapham
Indian Mounds of Wisconsin by Robert A. Birmingham and Leslie E. Eisenberg
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Video of Far View House – Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Ancestral Puebloans lived at Far View 200 years before the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings were built. Approximately 50 villages existed over time within a half mile area of each other. Peak populations on this site occurred between A.D. 900-1300. Six excavated sites are connected by trails; Far View House, Pipe Shrine House, Coyote Village, Far View Reservoir, Megalithic House, and Far View Tower. Slide copyright 2008, Creative Juice LLC.
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Aztalan State Park, Mound of the Dead – Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Southwest Platform Mound – Aztalan State Park
