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• HIGH WONDER

  Newark Earthworks

  How did the Hopewell lay out miles of near-perfect circles, squares, and an octagon to a shared unit of measure — and encode the moon's 18.6-year standstill cycle into that geometry — without writing, metal tools, the wheel, draft animals, or any known surveying instruments?

  Hopewell culture (Middle Woodland period), c. 100 BCE – 500 CE · Newark, Licking County, Ohio, United StatesAdded July 2026
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  Serpent Mound

  Which Native American culture actually built Serpent Mound and when, and what did its serpent form and solstice alignment mean to the people who raised it?

  disputed: c. 300 BCE (Early Woodland/Adena) or c. 1000-1100 CE (Late Prehistoric/Fort Ancient) · Adams County, Ohio, United StatesAdded July 2026