Warren County IN Archives History - Books .....The Mound Builders 1883
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Book Title: Counties Of Warren, Benton, Jasper And Newton, Indiana

THE MOUND-BUILDERS.

   It is a well known and conceded fact that all of Indiana and all her
neighboring States were once inhabited by a semi-barbarous people, known as the
Mound-Builders. Some authorities maintain that they were the ancestors of the
Indian tribes, and that the lapse of several thousand years will account for the
divergence in habit and osseous structure. Others insist that they were a
distinct race of people and that the lapse of the probable time between the
lives of the two races will not account for such divergence. All agree that the
Mound-Builders were an agricultural people. They were idolatrous and immolated
the lower animals and even human beings to secure the favor of their Deity. They
cultivated the soil with rude stone implements, wove a rude cloth from bark and
reeds, and erected huge stone and earthen structures of various forms and uses.
Three kinds of mounds are found in Warren County—sepulchral, sacrificial and
memorial. Within the first class are found the crumbling skeletons of this
people, besides various trinkets or ornaments. Within the second are baked clay
altars upon which are heaps of ashes, charcoal, and very often burnt fragments
of human bones. The sacrifices to the Deity were offered on these altars. The
third class contain nothing; they seem to have been erected, like the Bunker
Hill monument, to commemorate some important tribal event. Mounds are found in
Medina, Pine, Prairie, Adams, Liberty, Mound, and possibly other townships.
Mound Township received its name from this circumstance.


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PART II.
HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY.
Geology and Settlement

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COUNTIES OF 
Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton,
INDIANA

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1883.


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