点评:This National Historic Park is spread over many miles of Southern Ohio. The mounds were built between 2,000 and 1,500 years ago. Not much is known about the people who built them but the mounds are built in uniform shapes and sizes even though they are many miles apart, and archaeologists have found items at the site from all over North America, indicating a huge trade network.
Most of the visible mounds are at the City Mounds Group where the visitors center is. The visitors center is small and had few artifacts. There are four other NPS (and several state sites) that are part of the Park, but there’s little at any of these that can be seen from ground level other than at the Seinfeld Earthworks miles down the road. If you walk around the City Mounds Group, you don’t need to try to drive around to all the others. You won’t miss much.
翻译:这座国家历史公园遍布俄亥俄州南部的广阔地区。这些土墩建于2000至1500年前。虽然我们对建造者了解甚少,但这些相距数英里的土墩却有着统一的形状和大小。考古学家还在遗址中发现了来自北美各地的物品,这表明当时存在一个庞大的贸易网络。
大多数可见的土墩都位于游客中心所在的“城市土墩群”区域。游客中心规模很小,展出的文物也很少。公园内还有另外四处国家公园管理局管理的遗址(以及几处州立遗址),但除了远处那个名为“宋飞土丘群”的地方外,从地面几乎看不到这些遗址的任何痕迹。如果你绕着“城市土丘群”走一走,就不必再开车去其他地点了——反正也不会错过什么值得看的景观。