"5000 Years of Moundbuilding in North America"

Presented by Richard Shiels, OSU Newark Associate Professor Emeritus of History, Director of Newark Earthworks Center.

American Indians have been building earthworks in North America for over 5,000 years. The oldest earthworks are in Louisiana and carbon date 5,400 years ago. Over the millennia Indians built mounds along the Mississippi, the Missouri and Ohio Rivers and their tributaries from Louisiana to Wisconsin. The Creek Indians never stopped building mounds and other tribes have resumed mound-building in our time.  From time to time the form and function of mounds has changed.The Newark Earthworks are among the most spectacular of them all. Join us for a journey through time and space to marvel at these ancient people who literally shape the world in which we live.