JQ Jacobs · @jqjacobs
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A truck passes in front of the once largest . In search of treasure, the river was diverted to erode the monument. A portion rermains.
-8.131, -78.995
Latitude -8.1301° tangent equals one-seventh.
Early Monumental Architecture on the Peruvian Coast 
jqjacobs.net/andes/coast.html

by Razumikhina Daria web.archive.org/web/2016102210
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JQ Jacobs · @jqjacobs
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JQ Jacobs · @jqjacobs
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Williamson Mound, the third largest conic in , over 12m tall.
39.743833 -83.828167 +/-2m
Mound Builders of the Eastern Woodlands Expedition jqjacobs.net/blog/chillicothe.

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JQ Jacobs · @jqjacobs
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, let's make it trend .
Built over about seven millennia, found on the Brazilian coast range up to 70m high and 500m wide.
Photo is Garopaba Sambaqui -28.62547 -48.8929, largest shell mound in Santa Catarina area, about 700,00 cubic meters - nearly equal to Monks Mound.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil
See bibliography here: Sambaquis from the Southern Brazilian Coast ...
researchgate.net/publication/3

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Enon Mound, the second largest conic in , once about 15m in height.
39.879639, -83.931667
Signage prohibits climbing so I called upon the police station a block away and was given an escort who quickly tired of watching how slow the satellite reception is below the beautiful trees. I was there the last day of in 2005.
jqjacobs.net/blog/chillicothe.
Ancient Earthworks of Eastern North America   jqjacobs.net/archaeo/

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Some of the largest mounds in the world are accurately placed at significant latitudes. I first noticed the largest-in-volume earthen construction in the Americas, , , tangent = 4/5.
jqjacobs.net/archaeo/cahokia.h
Ancient Monument Latitudes Evidence Accurate
jqjacobs.net/geodesy/ancient_m
"Monument placement at latitudes where small rational numbers describe the local geometric relationship to celestial motions has astronomical utility."

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JQ Jacobs · @jqjacobs
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Can we make a thing? What's your favorite mound? How do you rate , significance, size, age, type, earthen, stone, geometric?
Here's a , 2560 x 1440 px, Mound, , .
Illustration from Squier and Davis. 40.05114 -82.45014
In turn on Layers > Photos (View > Sidebar) to check out shared .
Turn on Layers > Gallery > Google Earth Community and my appear at many mound and earthworks sites.

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