1. Mound developers and pueblos
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The First Corn, folktale from the Pawnee humans. Maize become the staple crop for Native American
agriculture.
Main articles: Mound Builders and Ancestral Puebloans
Grave Creek Mound, positioned in Moundsville, West Virginia, is one of the most important conical
mounds in the United States. It was constructed through the Adena culture.
Monks Mound of Cahokia (UNESCO World Heritage Site) in summer
Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Adena commenced constructing huge earthwork mounds round 600 BCE. They are the earliest
recognised humans to have been Mound Builders, but, there are mounds in the United States that
predate this culture. Watson Brake is an 11-mound complex in Louisiana that dates to 3,500 BCE, and
nearby Poverty Point, built through the Poverty Point lifestyle, is an earthwork complex that dates to
1,700 BCE. These mounds probable served a non secular purpose.
