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Life Along the River

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(image) Detail illustrating the mechanical techniques used by the Missippian engineers to raise large, heavy timbers.
 

By carefully aligning the posts, the moundbuilders likely marked an important date or guided the placement of a new earthwork. Illustration by Lloyd K. Townsend. Use prohibitied without permission.

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