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Gregory L Little, Ed.D.
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Gregory L Little, Ed.D.
@DrGregLittle2
BA/MS Psychology, Ed.D. Counseling/Ed. Psych Author since '84 (70+ books/workbooks). Mound Builder Society: Be Kind; Respect Everything; Honor the Ancient Ones.
- Florida's shoreline 18,000 years ago. The oldest archaeological sites are very likely along the submerged shorelines, all shorelines.
- The oldest archaeological sites in the Americas are likely underwater.
- I have to routinely show this map because there are so many new followers. This is an 1894 map by the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology showing the mound sites they had identified at that time--but only in the eastern half of the USA. The red dots are sites, many with multiple
- LiDAR of the "Circle & Octagon" earthworks in Newark, Ohio. The circle encloses 20 acres and the octagon 50 acres. The outer walls are 8-16 feet high. Note the 8 small truncated rectangular mounds at each point the octagon walls create small gaps. It was probably made ~ A.D. 200.
- I really don't know what to say about this.
- One of the finest aerial photos I've ever seen of a Native American mound showing how massive the mound really is. That is me walking down the ramp. When in use a thousand years ago, there was a large temple structure on the top. This is the largest mound at the [once] 23-mound
- I've shown this before but not many saw it. This is a 9.5 inch square copper sheet excavated from a mound in the 1800s by C. B. Moore in Florida.
- Two 10.5 inch embossed copper sheets excavated by C. B. Moore from a Florida mound in the early 1900s. It had a reed mat separating them.
- Illustration of a 10.5 inch square embossed copper sheet excavated from the Mount Royal mound site in Florida by C. B. Moore in 1873. It had a reed mat on the back and a second copper sheet was attached to its other side.
- 1. US National Park Service aerial photo of the "Marching Bear" effigy mounds in Iowa. 2. LiDAR image of the same formation by US Park Service.
- National Park Service LiDAR and aerial photo of the Marching Bear Effigy Group in Iowa.
- "Mystery Objects" found at Skara Brae on Orkney Island, UK. These were also found at several places in Scotland.
