Burial mound to be incorporated into Missouri neighborhood

     (AP) – A developer is preserving and incorporating a Native

American burial mound into a neighborhood development project.

     The Columbia Missourian reports Mike Tompkins bought property west of

Columbia and discovered the 80-foot-long mound on the northeastern side of the

property.

     Tompkins says the burial was discovered after city officials started

questioning what the mound was as he planned the 91-acre subdivision.

     Anthropology professor and former College of Arts and Sciences dean Michael

O’Brien surveyed the site. O’Brien says the site dates back to sometime between

450 A.D. and 750 A.D. According to O’Brien, the tribal affiliation can’t be

determined.

     Tompkins wants to preserve the site and has decided to incorporate it into a

planned green space in the neighborhood he’s developing. Plans also call for a

trail system to run near the mound.

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