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has gloss | eng: Mounds State Park is a state park in Anderson, Indiana, featuring prehistoric Native American heritage, and 10 ceremonial mounds built by the Adena people and apparently also used by later Hopewell inhabitants. The largest earthwork, the "Great Mound", is believed to have been constructed around 160 B.C. The Great Mound is a circular earth enclosure with an internal ditch and south to southwest entrance. The earthworks measure across from bank to bank. The nine-foot tall embankment is wide at its base, and the ditch is deep and across at its top. The central platform is across and was occupied by a four foot high central mound in diameter. In 1900, a series of strange misshapen skeletons were unearthed from Mounds in nearby Alexandria, Indiana. There was speculation that the skeletons were possibly the missing link or possibly even the remains of extra terrestrial visitors. This brought thousands of tourists from around the Mid-West. In 1910, several locals admitted to stealing chimpanzee skeletons from the nearby Muncie Zoo's monkey house. In 1915 the skeletons were sold to a local museum which burned down in 1919. Canoeing is also available on the White River. |
lexicalization | eng: Mounds State Park |
instance of | (noun) (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" people |
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