The function of the Pinson Mounds Pinson Mounds



the southwest corner of mound 28


the middle woodland natives built pinson mounds religious ceremonial purposes, although motives have yet established definitively. ozier mound contains no burials , because of shape, ramped , flat-topped, used ceremonial platform. 1 of oldest such mounds in eastern woodlands region. @ least 3 of mounds— 6, 12, , 31— contain burials or cremations. excavations have turned relatively scant amount of cultural material (e.g., arrowheads , pottery fragments), points lack of permanent habitation @ pinson mounds site.


some evidence suggests layout of pinson mounds might due astronomical alignment, , expresses people s cosmology, case @ later mound complexes, such cahokia. corners of sauls mound, instance, face 4 cardinal directions. eastern , western sections of complex equidistant (appx. 1,500 meters) inner complex, although alignment not exact. mound 29 in eastern section aligned sauls mound in direction of equinox sunrise, , mound 28 aligned sauls in direction of summer solstice sunrise. date, no mound has been found in direction of winter solstice sunrise.








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