Anthropology Colloquium: Precontact Burial Mounds of Iowa

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Humanities

Keywords

anthropology
archaeology
LIDAR

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Lecture/Discussion

Departments

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department of Anthropology
Office of the State Archaeologist
Office of the Vice President for Research

Anthropology Colloquium: Precontact Burial Mounds of Iowa

Feb 28, 2025

02:30 PM

Macbride Hall, 27

15-37 East Jefferson Street, Iowa City, IA 52240

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Map showing distribution of conical mounds of Iowa.

For more than 2,000 years Native Americans buried their dead in earthen mounds throughout Iowa. Extensive historical research and high-resolution LIDAR mapping allowed for the first detailed inventory of Indian burial mounds in Iowa, revealing how many are left intact, and how many have been damaged and destroyed. This study led to the unexpected rediscovery of a cluster of 200 linear mounds in the central Des Moines River valley.

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Anthropology Colloquium: Precontact Burial Mounds of Iowa