Mound Builder

Mound Builder  (mound)

n.

A member of any of various Native American peoples flourishing from around the 5th century b.c. to the 16th century a.d. especially in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, practicing settled agriculture and known for their often large burial and effigy mounds.

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mound builder

n.

See megapode.

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Mound Builder

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(Social Science / Archaeology) (Social Science / Peoples) a member of a group of prehistoric inhabitants of the Mississippi region who built altar-mounds, tumuli, etc.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Mound Builder - prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds primitive, primitive person - a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
	2.	mound builder - large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs megapode, mound bird, mound-bird, scrub fowl gallinacean, gallinaceous bird - heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds family Megapodiidae, Megapodiidae - megapodes leipoa, Leipoa ocellata, lowan, mallee fowl - Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds Alectura lathami, brush turkey - black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea Macrocephalon maleo, maleo - Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches