Who Found Serpent Mound

In the late 19th century, Harvard University archaeologist Frederic Ward Putnam excavated Serpent Mound, but he found no artifacts in the Serpent that might allow archaeologists to assign it to a particular culture.

Who discovered Serpent Mound?

Great Serpent Mound Excavations In the late 19th century, Frederic Ward Putnam, an archaeologist at Harvard University, conducted the earliest scientific excavations of Serpent Mound.

What Indians made the Serpent Mound?

Origin. The origin of the Serpent Mound, who built it and when, is still widely debated. In the 1700s a tribe of Delaware Indians told a man by the name of John Heckewelder that the Allegheny people built the mound. The Allegheny were a race of people who lived prior to the Adena culture, before approximately 1200 BC.

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