Case file · Sacred site
Criel Mound, South Charleston
An Adena burial mound in South Charleston, one of a large group of mounds in the Kanawha Valley that the Smithsonian's Mound Survey excavated in 1883–84.
200 BCE · 38.37, -81.70 · status: official
The sceptical view
Popular claims about 'giant skeletons' from Kanawha Valley mounds rest on loose readings of 19th-century reports, not on surviving remains.