Brian Gibbs was an environmental educator at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa. His job was among those nixed by the ...

The effigy was generally close to the physical dimensions of the person it represented and kings and queens were dressed in full coronation regalia. On arrival at the Abbey the coffin was removed from ...

Although some have suggested that the earliest drawings of the heart can be seen in prehistoric cave paintings ... of a heart is a Mesoamerican human effigy vessel, circa 1000 B.C. A photographic ...

Effigy Mounds is located in northeastern Iowa but is direct across the river from Southern Wisconsin in a picturesque section of the Upper Mississippi River Valley. The prehistoric mounds at ...