mound-builder

A small number of people had earlier reached similar conclusions: Thomas Jefferson, for example, excavated a mound and from the artifacts and burial practices, noted similarities between mound-builder funeral practices and those of Native Americans in his time

Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

None but a mound-builder who, of course, must have general knowledge on the subject of temperatures and the maintenance thereof, could conceive that these heated rocks would obviate the labour of raking together a mass of rubbish.

My Tropic Isle 2003

With the publication of Cyrus Thomas '"Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology" in 1894, the mound-builder myth was finally dispelled; the ancient monuments were the work of Indians.

Native Americans and Archaeologists: Introduction 1999

With the mound-builder tobacco was the greatest of luxuries; his solace in his hours of relaxations, and the choicest offering he could dedicate to the Great Spirit.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

Cossitt Library, an institution to which I found myself returning more than once; now for a book, now to look at the interesting collection of mound-builder relics contained in an upper room, now merely because it is a place of such reposeful hospitality that I liked to make excuses to go back.

American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

[16] The tabon, also called "the mound-builder" _ (Megapodius cumingi_).

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century Various 1906

None but a mound-builder who, of course, must have general knowledge on the subject of temperatures and the maintenance thereof, could conceive that these heated rocks would obviate the labour of raking together a mass of rubbish.

My Tropic Isle 1887

It’s a nest built by a mound-builder, a species of big-footed ground bird that erects such a great heap of dirt and compost to incubate its eggs.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

It’s a nest built by a mound-builder, a species of big-footed ground bird that erects such a great heap of dirt and compost to incubate its eggs.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004