-They built enormous earthen mounds in eastern North America

-Used at platforms for homes or as burial sites

-Most have been destroyed by modern construction and agriculture

-Located at junction of Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, prime location for trade

Cahokia

-Largest surviving mound

located in St. Louis, Illinois

-Used to be more than 100 satellite mounds surrounding it

-3rd largest structure of pre-European Western Hemisphere

Mound-Building Peoples