Editing Tumulus (section)

===South America===

====Uruguay====
[[File:Cerrito de Indios.jpg|thumb|''Cerritos'' in [[Rocha Department|Rocha]], [[Uruguay]]]]
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The Cerritos de Indios (Spanish for: ''Indian Mounds'' or ''Indian Little Hills'') are a collection of more than 3000 tumulus or earth mounds found mainly in the eastern region of [[Uruguay]].

Of different sizes and shapes, some of them date back 4000–5000 years, being among the oldest examples of tumulus building in the new world. The identity of the people group responsible for their construction is unknown, as they left no written records.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Earthen Mounds (Cerritos) of Southern Brazil and Uruguay|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329177660|website=Research Gate}}</ref>

It is believed that mounds were used for burial, as well for living and practicing agriculture in the flat marshlands and plains of eastern Uruguay.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=López Mazz|first=José M.|title=Las Estructuras Tumulares (Cerritos) del Litoral Atlantico Uruguayo |trans-title=The Tumular Structures (Cerritos) of the Uruguayan Atlantic Coastline |language=es|url=https://www.mna.gub.uy/innovaportal/file/20809/1/lopez_mazz_j._m._2001._las_estructuras_tumulares_cerritos_del_litoral_atlantico_uruguayo..pdf |journal=[[Latin American Antiquity]]|volume=12|issue=3|date=September 2001|pages=231–255|publisher=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.2307/971631|jstor=971631|s2cid=163375789 }}</ref>