earthwork
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If the name Offa is known at all today, it is because of Offa’s Dyke, an earthwork that roughly denotes the Anglo-Welsh border.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Armajani’s unusual earthwork joined in: Embracing a legal, bureaucratic form, he pointed to land as a decidedly social structure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
Land art in Malibu gets a second chance, as the artist Lita Albuquerque redraws her “Malibu Line,” an ultra-vivid blue earthwork that connects earth, ocean and sky.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
Next, the researchers used computer modeling to analyze known earthwork sites and predict their spread across the Amazon.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2023
One of the mounds at Cahokia is believe to be the largest earthwork in the Americas to have been built before the European invasions.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Vocabulary from Readings 2, Unit 4
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Vocabulary from Readings, Unit 5
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