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Calling North America's earthworks mounds is a western bias; what those people built were pyramids.
Drawn from what Ed Barnhart said
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What Ed Barnhart actually said
- Ed Barnhart Archaeologist and director of the Maya Exploration Center
but what they built were pyramids. They look like mounds now, and they didn’t build them out of stone. That’s kind of our just inherent western bias. Something that’s built out of stone is sophisticated, and something that’s built out of dirt is rudimentary.
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