Mound Builders
the name given to a prehistoric race, formerly inhabiting the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, who have left some very remarkable earthworks as their only memorials. The best known group of mounds is near Newark, O., and consists of "elaborate earthworks, in the form of a circle, octagon, and square, inclosing an area of about 4 square miles, on the upper terrace be tween two branches of the Licking river.
Scattered over the same plain, and crowning the neighboring hills, are numerous tumuli or mounds, evidently erected by the same people that built the larger works."
The human remains found in these mounds are usually so much decayed as to preclude the recovery of a single bone entire.