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Submitted by symbionspacesuit on Friday, 12 February 2010  Page Views: 8809

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pyramid Mound Alternative Name: Lower Sugarloaf, 12k14, the village of Piankashaw, Chipkawkay, Casqui
Country: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Vincennes, IN
Latitude: 38.654600N  Longitude: 87.518667W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
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
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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Pyramid Mound
Pyramid Mound submitted by symbionspacesuit : a profile of Pyramid Mound from the east (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mound in Great Lakes Midwest. Pyramid Mound sets to the southeast of Vincennes. U.S. Highway 41 lays across the western terrace of the step pyramid. Pyramid Mound has a base of three hundred and fifty feet from east to west by one hundred and fifty from north to south, and rises to a height of forty seven feet with a fifteen by fifty feet summit on the top terrace.

Vincennes and the rest of Knox county once held the largest concentration of moundbuilder architecture within the state of Indiana. Most were destroyed through agriculture and the erecting of the modern Vincennes. Though only a few of more than two hundred mounds that use to populate Knox County still exist, they are of the largest in the state.
For over two hundred years Pyramid Mound and the nearby Sugarloaf Mound were thought to be an artificial structure, and were "crowded with intrusive burials" (History of Old Vincennes and Knox County Indiana, George Green, 1911). More recent researchers have declared the mounds as a natural feature used for prehistoric burials ("The geomorphology of Sugar Loaf Mound: Prehistoric cemeteries and the formation of loess cones in the lower Wabash Valley", C. Russell Stafford, 1998.)
Pyramid Mound is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The area has been claimed as the site of "Casqui", a major town visited by Hernando DeSoto's expedition, by researchers who support a northern route. Parkin, Arkansas has also been claimed as the site of "Casqui".

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Pyramid Mound
Pyramid Mound submitted by AKFisher : Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). "Pyramid Mound" in Vincennes, Indiana. It began as a small hillock and was used by generations of ancient people as a burial mound. [WIKI: Nyttend] (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pyramid Mound submitted by symbionspacesuit : Pyramid Mound from the adjacent field where many more mounds once encompassed the central mound. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pyramid Mound submitted by symbionspacesuit : top platform of Pyramid Mound (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pyramid Mound submitted by symbionspacesuit : the top the of the tree covered mound from the eastern terrace (Vote or comment on this photo)

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