Effigy mounds built throughout eastern Iowa, including Skunk River (1 Jan 800 Jahr v. Chr. – 1 Jan 200 Jahr)

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During this time period the communities here often built large effigy mounds, created in the form of animals and perhaps other symbols. While the very first ones were built well before the first millennium b.c.e., mounds from 800 b.c.e. to 200 c.e. are found all across eastern Iowa, along each of the major rivers as well as throughout the interior. There are sites with effigy mounds from that time all along the Skunk River—20 miles west, 20 miles south, and 10 miles south of Camp. Communities buried their dead in these mounds, as well as items that Lynn Alex and other Iowan archaeologists speculate may have had religious meanings, including "exotic offerings from far away." By 1000 c.e., effigy mounds were rarely built in this area. Many of the ancient crops were also phased out, such as marsh elder, knotweed, and little barley.

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