Van Meter State Park Burial Mounds - Marshall, Missouri
Posted by: BruceS
N 39° 16.463 W 093° 15.680
15S E 477458 N 4347258
Indian mounds located in Van Meter State Park near Marshall, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WM1DYG
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 04/15/2007
Views: 107
These Indian mounds probably date from the Late Woodland period (A.D 400-900). They were probably constructed to honor important individuals. Mounds were sometime used again to bury additional people rather than construct new mounds.
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