Why did people across south-central Arizona build mounds?
• O Odham oral tradition holds that mounds were the homes of priests who had leadership roles and religious power. • Some archaeologists propose that elevated mounds and the surrounding walls may have played a role in defense of the sites. • Research shows evidence of flooding in some areas. The elevated mound areas may have provided a dry place for storage of goods. • Mounds may have had ideological or symbolic significance. Some pyramids in Mesoamerica, for example, represented mountains from which water was believed to originate.
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