The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-foot long and three-foot-high prehistoric effigy mound.

Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy in the world.

My question is without lawnmowers, how did these ancient peoples keep the surrounding vegetation from encroaching and obscuring the effigy?

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