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containing at least two cemeteries, ten superimposed burial mounds, and a platform mound. The Dickson Mounds site was founded by 800 CE and was in use until after...

1980s and 1990s, the Illinois State Museum expanded to also open four satellite museums. The Dickson Mounds Museum, near Lewistown, Illinois, specializes...

Edgar Lee Masters, who lived there. Native American burial mounds are nearby at Dickson Mounds off Illinois Route 97. The city was named for Lewis Ross...

Native culture. It is the largest collection of Woodland Mounds in Illinois, with 35 Mounds, dating from 400 BC, arranged in a crescent. Fulton County...

Cahokia Mounds are considered to be the largest and most complex archaeological site north of the great pre-Columbian cities in Mexico. Cahokia Mounds is a...

National Park Service. July 9, 2010. Seven Decades of Archaeology, Dickson Mounds Museum, Illinois State Museum, Retrieved January 26, 2007. Article...

Prehistory of Dickson Mounds: The Dickson Excavation. Alan D. Harn Illinois State Museum, Reports of Investigations, No. 35, Dickson Mounds Museum Anthropological...

in 2011, who reported their discovery to archaeologists at the Dickson Mounds Museum. The boulder consists of five petroglyphs, all carved on its top...

Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300106015. "Dickson Mounds Acquires Important Artifact". Dickson Mounds Museum. Archived from the original on February 20...

within 40 miles (64 km) of Peoria and adjacent to the established Dickson Mounds museum, was expected to help draw visitors.[citation needed] In April 2008...

on the mound seem to have been added to stop slumping of the enormous mound. Although the mounds were primarily meant as substructure mounds for buildings...

included the Illinois State Museum and its branches which include the Research and Collections Center, Dickson Mounds Museum in Lewistown and the Lockport...

The Norton Mound group, (also known as Norton Mound Site (20KT1) and Hopewell Indian Mounds Park), is a prehistoric Goodall focus mounds site in Wyoming...

This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities...

Spiromound.com Destruction of Craig Mound Spiro Mounds Bibliography Caddoan Mississippian Culture The Spiro Mounds Site Historic American Landscapes Survey...

is believed that the mounds were constructed by hunter-gatherers as ceremonial and burial sites, in contrast with centralized mound-building societies like...

This is a list of notable burial mounds in the United States built by Native Americans. Burial mounds were built by many different cultural groups over...

restore the mounds to their pre-Columbian condition and add walking trails to the park. The site also includes a museum. Winterville Mounds, named for...

hundreds. The site is dominated by two large platform mounds, with at least eight smaller mounds scattered around a central plaza area. Agriculture was...

such as Ingomar Mound and Pinson Mounds on its western periphery, built large platform mounds. Archaeologist speculate the mounds were for feasting...