Examples from elsewhere in Orkney are the Vinquoy cairn, found at an elevated location on the north end of the island of Eday and Quoyness on Sanday constructed about 2900 BC and which is surrounded by an arc of Bronze Age mounds.

Termite mounds with varied heights of chimneys regulate gas exchange, temperature and other environmental parameters that are needed to sustain the internal physiology of the entire colony.

The physical evidence, in the form of pillow mounds is also plentiful, for example there are 50 pillow mounds at Legis Tor Warren.

Sometimes the entrances are simply flat holes in the ground, while at other times they are surrounded by mounds of soil either left as piles or packed down hard.

During half-time of a match, spectators are invited to go onto the field to participate in a polo tradition called " divot stamping ", which has developed to not only help replace the mounds of earth ( divots ) that are torn up by the horses ' hooves, but to afford spectators the opportunity to walk about and socialise.

Cold-water coral mounds have been identified in the region, They are currently being researched.

The mounds are known as " barrows " although they do not contain burials.

The great bells and drums, Kofun burial mounds, and the founding of the imperial family are important to this period.

They are said to live underground in fairy mounds, across the western sea, or in an invisible world that coexists with the world of humans.

In the Irish language, aos sí means " people of the mounds " ( the mounds are known in Irish as " the sídhe ").

In Irish literature the people of the mounds are also called daoine sídhe ; in Scottish mythology they are daoine sìth.

Indeed, there are many sites of similar forts in the area, and Stone Age and Bronze Age burial mounds are common throughout the area.

Emergent structures are a common strategy found in many animal groups: colonies of ants, mounds built by termites, swarms of bees, shoals / schools of fish, flocks of birds, and herds / packs of mammals.

Moguls are a series of bumps on a trail formed when skiers push the snow into mounds or piles as they execute short-radius turns.

Since crayfish are accustomed to being in ponds or rivers, they will have a tendency to shift gravel around on the bottom of the tank, creating mounds or trenches to emulate a burrow.

In this case, the burial mounds have designs cut into the ground, though intaglio broadly applies to burial mounds which are raised above the natural surface of the terrain.

Located nearby are several ancient burial mounds ( kurgans ) and excavated cities.

Just before the gates, two rows of mounds line the road, which are the graves of the former Kings of Rohan.

It is represented by the great complex of ruin mounds known to the Arabs as Nuffar, written by the earlier explorers Niffer, divided into two main parts by the dry bed of the old Shatt-en-Nil ( Arakhat ).

The site represents one of the largest ancient city mounds in Israel, its surface area comprising 120, 000 m² in size, divided into an " Upper City " ( 40, 000 m² ) and a " Lower City " ( 80, 000 m² ).

The mounds complex can be roughly divided into three sections — the Inner section, situated at the center of the complex around Saul's Mound, the Western ( or Ozier ) section, and the Eastern section, which includes the geometric enclosure.

Archaeologists, both amateur and professional, were divided between believing the mounds were built by passing groups of people who settled in various places elsewhere, or believing they could have been built by Native Americans.

The lip and landing are usually built as separate mounds, divided by a gap.

The elves of Norse mythology have survived into folklore mainly as females, living in hills and mounds of stones.

Many believe that it was here, in the fertile valleys of Strathtay and Strathmore, that the four-posters became refined into neat squares, averaging 12 square metres in internal area, placed on neat levelled mounds with cists or cremations near the north east stone.

The female lays her eggs in burrows cut into the side of a hill or in the abandoned nesting mounds of the Orange-footed Scrubfowl ( a moundbuilder or megapode ), with a preference for the abandoned mounds.

The physiography of Latvia and its neighboring areas was formed, to a large degree, during the Quaternary period and the Pleistocene ice age, when soil and debris were pushed by glaciers into mounds and hills.

The houses used earth sheltering but, being sunk into the ground, they were built into mounds of pre-existing domestic waste known as " middens ".

The Tuatha Dé Danann were led underground into the Sidhe mounds by Manannán mac Lir.

Intaglio ( from ) is a term from art applied to burial mounds that refers to a design cut into a hard surface.

They may have migrated from the north and moved south into Muscogee Creek territory and settled at the sites of mounds built by the Mississippian culture.

They have short legs, with sharp claws which they use for burrowing into termite and ant mounds, as well as climbing.

Instead, they tear open anthills or termite mounds with their powerful front claws and probe deep into them with their very long tongues.

In 1956 Gimbutas introduced her Kurgan hypothesis, which combined archaeological study of the distinctive Kurgan burial mounds with linguistics to unravel some problems in the study of the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ) speaking peoples, whom she dubbed the " Kurgans "; namely, to account for their origin and to trace their migrations into Europe.

The Ler in this story was the rival of Bodb Dearg for the kingship of the Tuatha Dé Danann after their retreat into the fairy mounds.

His inscriptions mention the conquest of nine fortified temples ; 180 Hurrian cities were " turned into rubble mounds ", and Shalmaneser "… slaughtered like sheep the armies of the Hittites and the Ahlamu his allies …".

A person typically encounters fire ants by inadvertently stepping into one of their mounds, which causes the ants to swarm up the person's legs, attacking en masse.

Charlie and Louis hop into the jeep and chase the kangaroo attempting to grab the money from the jacket on the kangaroo, but the ensuing chase ends with the duo driving through a field of termite mounds and crashing into a pile of rocks.

She tentatively named the culture " Kurgan " after their distinctive burial mounds and traced its diffusion into Europe.

They evolved into large hemispherical mounds with features such as the torana ( gateway ), the vedica ( fence-like enclosure evolved from the vedic villages ), the harmika ( a square platform with railings on top of the stupa ), chattrayashti ( the parasol or canopy ) and a circumambulatory around the stupa.

Their small mounds of an individual were stone-lined graves ( cists ) and then they fused several graves together into a single large mound.