| 单词 | mound-work |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmound-work mound-work n. †(a) an ornamental bank of stone and earth (obsolete); (b) Archaeology a prehistoric earthwork (cf. sense 4a); (c) Archaeology the study of prehistoric mounds. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > artificial or ornamental mound or bank mount1591 mound-work1718 curb1881 1718 J. Addison Remarks Italy (ed. 2) 32 The State of Milan is like a vast Garden, surrounded by a Noble Mound-Work of Rocks and Mountains. 1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 254 The writer advancing the theory that the mound works being similar all over the world, they should be attributed in their origin to one race. 1897 Science New Ser. 5 881/1 I would like to cite two personal experiences which occurred during my mound-work in Florida. 1929 Amer. Archaeol. 31 553 We know sufficient to assign mound works north of the Ohio to pre-Columbian times. 1968 R. Silverberg Mound Builders Anc. Amer. ii. 37 Mount Royal received its first scientific excavation more than a century later. In 1893 there came to it Clarence B. Moore, whose mound work in Florida occupied him for a dozen years and did much to clarify the problems of this phase of Southern prehistory. 2001 R. Hamilton Myst. Serpent Mound 55 The white man destroyed these beautiful mound works in main part because he had no clues as to what their function was. < as lemmas |
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