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Excavated earthworks matching “Lebanon”

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🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Fort Ancient Earthworks

Hopewell 1–450 CE · Hopewell tradition

Largest hilltop enclosure: 40 ha with 67 gateways, Hopewell 1–450 CE, UNESCO 2023.

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🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Sellars Farm Mound and Village

Mississippian Middle Cumberland (1000–1300 CE) · Mississippian (Sellars phase)

Middle Cumberland Mississippian (1000–1300 CE) platform mound town on Spring Creek 3 km south of Cumberland River: single 5-m-high substructure mound (60×40 m) with refurbished summit structure and…