The Great Serpent Mound
The Ancients
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The Age of the Alligator Mount
The Great Serpent Mount has been excavated since the 19th century. The alligator may be positioned where it is because of the gigantic Hopewell period Newark Earthworks, but I don't think they're directly related in terms of time. There were only really early poorly documented excavations that people had dug a trench into it and found stone mounds at the base.
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