How old is Serpent Mound ?

So does we actually know who build it ? why? Maybe for summer and winter solstice?

Not to far from my house.. Not much to look at from the ground but they have a tower you can walk up to get a view from above.

I think it was Native Americans of the pre archaic era most likely preceeding the Delaware or Iroquios.

I never knew this existed. Pretty cool. As to who built it, I did a little googling and this is what I found: "The dating of the design, the original construction, and the identity of the builders of the serpent effigy are three questions still debated in the disciplines of social science, including ethnology, archaeology, and anthropology. In addition, contemporary American Indians have an interest in the site. Several attributions have been entered by academic, philosophic, and Native American concerns regarding all three of these unknown factors of when designed, when built, and by whom. Ov... [More]

I think Cultures in the Americas and all over the world were more advanced and older then traditonal science gives them credit for. Cakokia Mound in Western Illinois, Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, Mayan Pyramids the list goes omn.

I agree. I don't think these culture were primitive at all. Imagine the work and design involved. It is amazing.

We have a serpent mounds aswell...not quite as awesome tho http://www.ontarioplaques.com/Plaques_PQR/Plaque_Peterborough17.html

I just posted about this here: Profiling The Unexplained: Serpent Mound This is what I posted: I visited the Serpent Mound when I was a kid, but I haven't returned, even though it's only about an hour drive from where I live. I should go back sometime, but it's the kind of place where once is enough, let the next person have their chance, and don't let it get trashed by tourists. We're taught about Christopher Columbus in school, and how people used to believe the world was flat before he discovered America. I don't agree with that, however. If you look at a bird's-eye-view of the Serpent Moun... [More]