| THE MOUND BUILDERS OF BURLINGTON WISCONSIN BACK TO BURLINGTON MOUND BUILDERS HOME PAGE CONTACT ME THE MOUND BUILDERS - WHO WERE THEY? Mary Sutherland Copyright 2005 HISTORY OF THE MOUND BUILDERS For reasons only known to them, scholars decided to change history and give credit to the Native American Indian as the builder of the earthen mounds. During its initial phase , the people refused to belief it, but later generations in the mid-nineteenth century came to acdept it. Albert Gallatin , founder of the American Ethnological Society of New York and Wisconsin naturalist, was one of the first to push this unpopular later position. However, Caleb Atwater published Description of the Antiquities in the State of Ohio and other Western States (1820) and advanced the idea that the mounds were built by a culture much more advanced than the American Indians. Josiah Priest, 'Antiquities and Discoveries of the West', argued that the mounds were built by the Lost Tribes of Israel, wandering Egyptians, Greeks and other groups unassociated with the American Indian. William Pidgeon's ' Tradition of De-Coo-Dah' (1858) , states that De-Coo-Dah told him of an ancient race of mound building people who were much more numerous than the present Indians. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3000 BC Megalithic cultures arise around 4500 BC; then on both continents, at the very same time, copper-using Beaker-inspired cultures arise in 3000 BC. 1500 BC Next, the Beaker Groups flee from conquest in 1500 BC, and their Beaker cultural traits begin to be widespread in North America; finally in both Europe and the New World, at the very same time, 700 BC Beaker-derived cultures collapse in 700 BC. Copper Trade in the Great Lakes Region - King David and King Solomon In the book Bronze Age America, the late Dr. Barry Fell (Professor Emeritus of Harvard University) records that copper trading between ancient North America and the Old World was extant prior to and DURING THE REIGN OF KING DAVID! "His book cites evidence from ancient inscriptions that Norse kings carried on a copper trade with the New World in the St. Lawrence River as early as 1700 B.C., seven centuries prior to the reign of King David over Israel" There is, clear evidence that David's allies, the Canaanite Phoenicians, were included in the New World copper trade and that some of David's huge stockpile of copper ore came from the Phoenician's North American trading routes. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Straits of Gibraltar (Pillars of Hercules), and the nearby Phoenician colony of Gades (Cadiz) were the focal points of the Iberian Peninsula. Northern Europeans trading or moving south were channelled there, where the Mediterranean crossing was the shortest. The ships of the Phoenicians and their colonies were large and seaworthy, as were other ancient Mediterranean ships, fully capable of sailing in the Atlantic Ocean. (Gloria Farley ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Around the northern shore of Lake Superior, and on the adjacent Ile Royale, there are approximately 5,000 ancient copper mine workings. In 1953 and 1956 Professor Roy Drier led two Michigan Mining and Technology expeditions to the sites. Charcoal found at the base of the ancient mining pits yielded radio carbon dates indicating that the mines had been operated between 2000 B.C. and 1000 B.C...The most conservative estimates by mining engineers show that at least 500 million pounds of metallic copper were removed over that time span, and there is no evidence as to what became of it. Bronze Age America. NY: Wallaby, 1976. P. 261. The Bible states that ancient Israel, under King David, was stockpiling massive quantities of copper ore around 1,000 B.C. Sources also confirm that the North American copper mines ran out of ore during the reign of Solomon. The connection between the two should be obvious. CONTINUED |
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| The first mound area is at the Fischer Park 30326 Durand Ave (Hwy 11) Off Browns Lake . The Native Americans called Browns Lake - 'Lake of the Shining Arrow' There are no markers whatsoever to give reference to the beautiful mounds in the park! What pleasure people could take in the mounds - if they only knew.. |
| This second mound is located off Browns Lake on Hwy W . This one seems to have been used several times. One as an 'ancient' mound - then a Native American Burial Mound - then a cemetery dating early 1800's. When we first started reporting this cemetery, it was unkept with broken tombstones. Since then it has been cleaned with the broken tombstones removed. Unfortunately, no markers were set to mark the graves of which had the tombstones removed. As the story goes, the remains of the Native Americans were damaged and discarded as they made way for the new wave of tenants . This seems to be one of the higher points overlooking Burlington . *Mounds all around the Browns Lake Area. No Markers indicating Mounds are here . |
| … A race, that long has passed away, Built them ...a disciplined and populous race Heaped, with long toil, the earth. … … The red man came... The roaming hunter tribes, warlike and fierce, And the mound-builders vanished from the earth. … The gopher mines the ground Where stood the swarming cities. All is gone;All—save the piles of earth that hold their bones, The platforms where they worshipped unknown gods. … |
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