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mound builder
1Mound Builder
2noun
- a member of one of the various American Indian tribes who, in prehistoric and early historic times, erected the burial mounds and other earthworks of the Mississippi drainage basin and southeastern U.S.
Mound Builder
1noun
- a member of a group of prehistoric inhabitants of the Mississippi region who built altar-mounds, tumuli, etc
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Example Sentences
The specimen shown in fig. 302 is quoted as a “typical example of the cross of the mound-builder.”
Every skeleton of a Mound-Builder is found in a condition of extreme decay.
Furthermore the mound builder used metal tools, and was probably a metal worker.
They resemble the brown mound-builder ant; the slaves are black.
The professor closes his description with the remark: "The skeleton undoubtedly belonged to a veritable mound-builder."
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