Etowa, Georgia's Indian Mounds

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Okay, this is probably kinda boring, but a few weeks ago I came up Highway 41 and looked for these things and couldn't find any signs telling me where they were, so today, riding back to school on I-75, I saw the signs and followed them to the Indian Mounds. Indian mounds were made by Native Americans long before the time of Columbus. There is not much actually known about them, but the generally accepted archeological explanation is that the Indians built these "mounds" as a burial place for their dead and a ceremonial place. It's kinda interesting that different ancient cultures around the globe often did similar things, and we rarely know the exact purpose or what went on there in the past. The druids also had "mounds" and of course the Egyptians and Aztecs and Incas all built various forms of pyramids as burial and ceremonial sites.







Those gray things are tree stumps. Not sure if you can tell in my photos. I couldn't get very close today the area was closed so I just had to snap pictures from the roadway through the fence. I assume that archeologists think they were just grass hills when the Indians built them, and so in recent years the trees were removed down to the stumps so they wouldn't obscure the view of the mounds.