Among the largest and best-known of these structures is Monks Mound at the site of Cahokia in what became Illinois, completed around 1100 AD, which has a base larger than that of the Great Pyramid at Giza.
Pri ponovni posvetitvi Velike piramide v Tenochtitlanu leta 1487, so Azteki poročali, da so žrtvovali okoli 80.400 ljudi v štirih dneh.