What is the history of the Woodhenge and Monks Mounds?

Quote---- Monk's Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian Earthworks (archaeology)earthwork in America north of Mesoamerica. Located at the Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near Collinsville, Illinois, its size was calculated in 1988 as about 100 feet (30 meters) high, 955 feet (291 meters) long including the access ramp at the southern end, and 775 feet (236 meters) wide ----quote---- information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monks_Mound This mound was constructed by the Native Americans of the Mississippian culture 900–950 CE, the site where it was situated already been occupied by buildings. These mounds where made up of "layers of basket-transported soil and clay" and had a flattened top. Significance of Monk's Mound would be It was the largest structure and central focus of the Cahokia city.

Massive in size with four terraces, "it is 10 stories tall, and is the largest man-made earthen mound north of Mexico"(information obtain from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia) ----quote---- This makes Monk's Mound roughly the same size at its base as the Great Pyramid of Giza (13.1 acres / 5.3 hectares). Its base circumference is larger than the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan ----quote---- From my research there are two Woodhenge one was created by the Cahokia Indians and the other which is "Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England" (for the one in England please see this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhenge) Woodhenge like Monks Mounds was constructed by the Cahokia Indians of the Mississippian culture. Woodhenge were "a circle of posts used to make astronomical sightings,stood to the west of Monk's Mound."

These "placement of posts marked solstices and equinoxes, like its namesake, Stonehenge. " ----quote---- "A beaker11 found in a pit near the winter solstice post bore a circle and cross symbol that for many Native Americans symbolizes the Earth and the four cardinal directions. Radiating lines probably symbolized the sun, as they have in countless other civilizations.

----quote---- information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia.

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