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This past weekend I was up in Georgia and JLee decided that I needed some education in the ways of Indian Mounds . There's a few over there on the left. They're nice pretty grass things. Pretty big too. I don't know if you can see it, but the higher mound has a couple of people on the staircase, around 2/3 of the way up. That gives you some scale on the size. You might also be able to tell from that picture that it was an overcast day with rain threatening. We did get lucky tho and it was sunny and hot the entire time we were there It did rain both before and after while we were driving so we were fortunate to have good weather for our time amongst the mounds. Here's some of that educational stuff that I was being exposed to. The mounds were quite a construction feat for a civilization that didn't have much in the way of engineering tools. Either the leaders were very charismatic, powerful, or the people doing the digging and building were very very bored. That'...