Sentence examples for in large mounds from inspiring English sources

These people buried their leaders in large mounds containing shaft graves.

Clumps of marsh grass lay piled up in large mounds, while the plants that were still rooted in the soil had turned brown and brittle — symptoms of salt burn.

Chinampas are shallow swamps and lakes that would be slowly modified into cropland by dredging mud and silt and placing into large mounds in layers with plant vegetation.

6. Pile egg mixture in three large mounds close together on top of raspberries, each covering one-third of the dish.

Then I fold the whites and lightly beaten yolks together with the flour and spoon them into the baking dish, in three large mounds, almost like pyramids.

An article on Friday about a Peruvian archaeological site that is said to be the oldest city in the Americas referred incorrectly to the volume of stone in a large mound at the site.

The polar bear digs a den in the snow, whereas grizzlies build large mounds of dirt in front of their dens.

The area's Woodland peoples left their most lasting mark in the form of large mounds built of thousands of basketfuls of clay and earth.

Visible traces of their occupancy, which spanned nearly 10,000 years, may be seen at Dust Cave, a Paleo-Indian site; at Russell Cave, a site dating to the Archaic period; and at Moundsville, a Mississippian site nestled in a series of large mounds that snake across the land.

There are also three large mounds in the desert that contain the remains of maize and sugarcane that definitely came from 400 to 100 B.C.E., when the Paracas people dominated the region.

This cultural connection to the East is seen in the construction of large mounds, earthworks, and the trade of exotic goods over very long distances.