11 Facts About Serpent Mound

Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-foot-long, three-foot-high prehistoric effigy mound located in Peebles, Ohio.

The Serpent Mound was first reported through surveys by Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis.

In previous years, the civilization responsible for the creation of the Serpent Mound had been highly disputed amongst archaeologists, as can be seen in the material published in 2002.

An article published in July 2014, titled "New Radiocarbon Dates Suggest Serpent Mound is More Than 2,000 Years Old", provides evidence supporting the mound's creation by the Adena culture around 300 BC.

The Adena Serpent Mound site became the "type site" of the culture itself due to its exemplification of all the culture's significant features.

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Serpent Mound is located on the site of a classic astrobleme, an ancient meteorite impact structure.

The Serpent Mound is listed as a "Great Wonder of the Ancient World" by National Geographic Magazine.

Serpent Mound was originally purchased on behalf of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum.

Serpent Mound worked for four years to excavate the burial sequence contents of both The Serpent Mound and two nearby conical mounds.

Serpent Mound found that the mound is at the convergence of three distinctly different soil types.

Furthermore, a digital GIS map of Ohio's Great Serpent Mound was created by Timothy A Price and Nichole I Stump in March 2002.