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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Biltmore Mound
Country: United States Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Ashville, NC
Latitude: 35.540000N  Longitude: 82.553W
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Artificial Mound in Buncombe County, North Carolina.
Woodland era mound (200-500AD) covering approximately 1000 sq feet in area, but much reduced from its original height. The mound is thought to have been built by the culture group known as the Connestee, contemporaries of the Hopewell culture centered in Ohio.

The location given is general for the historic Biltmore Estate. This mound is included on some tours of the grounds. Otherwise the site is not accessible.
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Biltmore Mound, or how fabricated history concealed architectural facts . . . twice! by Andy B on Saturday, 22 May 2010
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During the 1980s American scholars suddenly became interested in Spain’s efforts to colonize the North America. For 200 years American history books had generally ignored the Spanish and French presence in North America prior to the English colonies winning their independence. Generations of students here were under the impression that no white man had set foot on the continent until brave Englishmen founded a short-lived colony on Roanoke Island, NC in 1585. Well, while all the history books were being printed in Boston, probably most students had the impression that the first colony was founded by the Pilgrims in 1621 on Massachusetts Bay! The earlier colonies at Roanoke Island and Jamestown, VA were painted as a typically inept effort by lazy Southern aristocrats, who would later start a Civil War.

First, the victorious British, and then, the propagandists of the new American republic wanted erase all memories of non-English speaking peoples ever having a legitimate claim to the lands they conquered. The Natives, of course, were barbaric savages thinly scattered across the landscape, who selfishly wanted to keep their lands for themselves. The Spanish and French were painted as lazy aristocrats, who briefly passed through the countryside, treated the Indians with extreme cruelty, and then were too incompetent to found permanent settlements.

The facts were something very different. The first attempt to found a colony in North America was by the Spanish at Sapelo Island, GA in 1526. By the end of that century, there were twice as many Spanish missions and mission Indians on the 90 mile long coast of Georgia, as there ever were on the 800 mile coastline of California. The Spanish established gold mining colonies in the Georgia Mountains 200 years before the nation’s first gold rush in that region. The French had established many towns and forts in the Gulf Coast region and Mississippi River Basin. In general, the French treated Native Americans with far more respect than did the other two colonial powers.

In 2003 archaeologists from Appalachian State University excavated the Biltmore Mound site. It wasn’t much . . . an 18 inches high – 50 feet diameter bump in the hayfields of the Biltmore Estate. The professor-student team was initially excited about finding architectural proof of the Cherokee’s ancient civilization. What the found instead was that the mound was not even a mound. It was the ruins of a building. The organic residue from the structure was analyzed by equipment that measures the deterioration of Carbon 14 radioisotope absorbed by formerly living matter.

A large round structure had first been built there around 200 AD. Approximately every 50 years until around 450 AD. Each time the structure was rebuilt, a brightly colored clay cap was applied to the remains of the previous structure. After five reconstructions the combined clay caps probably reached the grand height of three feet. Artifacts found in and around the round structure were typical of those produced in the Middle Woodland Period (0-600 AD.) Some were similar to those found at Hopewell Culture sites in Ohio. (See articles on the Hopewell Ceremonial Complexes and the Seip Ceremonial Earthworks.) There was nothing unearthed, such as skeletons, which could possibly ascribe any ethnic identity to the builders of this round structure.

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http://www.examiner.com/x-40598-Architecture--Design-Examiner~y2010m3d15-Americas-architectural-heritage-the-Biltmore-Mound-Asheville-North-Carolina
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Indian mound on Biltmore Estate featured on special historical tour by bat400 on Tuesday, 19 August 2008
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Originally submitted by coldrum:

One of the first things the Indians of Western North Carolina probably had to do around A.D. 450, each time they reinhabited their big ceremonial site at what is now the Biltmore Estate, is chase away the dogs.

A circular structure, about as large as the Folk Art Center, sat atop a mound at which seasonal feasts had established a residue of bones and the promise of food. And that likely attracted the dogs.

The Biltmore Mound, officially labeled 31BN174, is three times the size of similar Connestee Indian sites in the Appalachians. It’s one of dozens of archaeological sites, spanning 9,000 years, discovered on the Biltmore Estate during the past 25 years.

The Connestee locals were connected to the great Hopewell culture of Ohio. Though a hunting and gathering people, they liked to camp out and party for periods of time, particularly at the beginning and end of hunting seasons.

The Ohio Hopewell owned a lot of pottery that had a high mica content, which indicates they got it from the southern mountaineers. Mica was a coveted resource among the Indians along the Swannanoa, who often cut it into decorative shapes. As the more than 50,000 pottery shards retrieved from the Biltmore Mound show, the Swannanoans also decorated their pottery with stamps and brushings. They may have established something like a hunting lodge or a church kitchen.

The permanence of the lodge at the Biltmore Mound is indicated by PM 21 — that is, post mold No. 21, a 4-foot deep hole dug for a nearly 2-foot thick post. The labor of setting up this central support had been so great that the Indians dug a sloping trench to it so they could slide the column into place.


A lot of the remains found at the mound are the refuse of the locals’ daily lifestyles, used as fill. But there are also specialized tools and ceremonial accessories, such as wolf and bear mandibles cut straight across the bottom, perhaps to fit the human face.
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