News is circulating the Net today of a discovery of animal-shaped mounds in Peru. It’s being hailed as something unusual and something much older than the mounds found in North America. One article notes that the mounds of North America are not nearly as old as these in Peru, which are said to be some 4,000 years of age. For the most part, this observation seems accurate, save the mound at Lower Jackson Mound in Epps, Louisiana, just about 1/2 mile due south of the Bird Mound at Poverty Point.
The other truly exciting and exceptional piece of information pointed out in Antiquity, included in the articles is the suggestion that the Peruvians were doing archeoastronomic alignments with their mounds, a similar suggestion as to things that may also have happened with those built in North America. 
The Wonders Expedition Site GPS Observations
There was one other observation we noted in looking at the work of the Peruvians. Much was said in the two publications about how curious it is that these mounds happened so far away from the ones in North America and that they do not seem to exist anywhere else on the planet but these two continents.
Not having been able to find the exact GPS coordinates for the two sites found by University of Missouri anthropology professor emeritus Robert Benfer, we are going on the assumption that the two Peruvian sites are close to S 12° and W 77° with varying minutes and seconds.
It is our curious observation, with a world 360° round, that the North American mounds nearly all can be found within W 82° and W 91° longitude on the map, which puts them between 5° and 14° apart at the most from the Peruvian mounds. The separation comes from latitude of S 12° and N 32° – 40°.
It would seem to us that this is indeed, more of a matter of them actually not being very far a part at all east-to-west, and begs the question about why, with all the other places on earth, these mounds only seemed to have been built within such a tight band of longitude.
Most of the sites we have observed through our work at The Wonders Expedition seem to have more of a correlation or to be grouped within latitudinal bands. The fact that these are longitudinally so close to us is the most curious point of all.
Observations of Indian Mounds within the United States by GPS Coordinates, Elevation in Meters, and when it was built and its age:
| Historic Location, City, Nation | Latitudes D M S | Longitudes D M S | Elev in Metrs | BC/AD | Year Built | Age | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poverty Point, Epps, Louisiana | N | 32 | 38 | 7.00 | W | 91 | 24 | 18.00 | 1,065 | BC | 1650 | 3,661 | ||||
| Ocmulgee National Monument Mounds, Macon, Georgia, USA | N | 32 | 50 | 12.00 | W | 83 | 36 | 30.00 | 276 | AD | 1050 | 1,000 | ||||
| Monk's Mound, Cahokia, Illinois, USA | N | 38 | 39 | 17.31 | W | 90 | 3 | 49.08 | 128 | AD | 950 | 1,061 | ||||
| Cancho Roano, Zalamea de la Serena, Badajoz, Spain | N | 38 | 42 | 3.93 | E | 5 | 41 | 9.68 | 412 | BC | 550 | 2,561 | ||||
| The Great Serpent Mound, Ohio | N | 39 | 1 | 27.97 | W | 82 | 25 | 48.47 | 238 | AD | 1070 | 941 | ||||
| Moorehead Circle, Fort Ancient Woodhenge, Oregonia, Ohio | N | 39 | 24 | 25.43 | W | 84 | 5 | 59.39 | 206 | AD | 11 | 2,000 | ||||
| Fort Ancient SunWatch Villiage, Dayton, Ohio | N | 39 | 42 | 55.65 | W | 84 | 13 | 55.5 | 220 | AD | 11 | 2,000 | ||||
| The Earthworks of Newark, OH, USA | N | 40 | 2 | 21.11 | W | 82 | 55 | 44.08 | 260 | AD | 250 | 1,761 | ||||
| Mounds State Park, Anderson, Indiana | N | 40 | 5 | 43.45 | W | 85 | 37 | 22.54 | 160 | BC | 160 | 2,171 |
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- Poverty Point, Jackson Mound and The Pyramids – 2 Degrees of Separation (thewondersexpedition.com)
- The Mysteries of Poverty Point, LA, USA – And The Beginnings of The Wonders Expedition™ (thewondersexpedition.com)
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