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/Home/Historical Studies/Archaeology/North America/United States/Illinois Archaeology at Dickson Mounds Museum Votes:0 Seven Decades of Archaeology The study of the ancient past at the Dickson Site began in 1927 when Dr. Don F. Dickson conducted excavations on the family farm. His work attracted the attention of the public and scholars. University of Chicago archaeologists who excavated in the area in the 1930s established many of the methods and field techniques of modern archaeology. Over the years Dickson Mounds has been a center for the study and interpretation of the prehistory of the Illinois River Valley, one of the richest archaeological regions in the country. University of Chicago crew at the nearby Morton Site, 1930. West-central Illinois is rich in archaeological sites. There are a number of important sites on the museum grounds or nearby. Dickson Mounds For parts of four centuries, inhabitants Read More Go to Site Conscious Choice: The Life and Afterlife of Burial Mounds in Illinois Votes:0 Home Events TV Directory Calendar Classifieds Advertise Archive About Us Submissions Los Angeles San Francisco Seattle November 2000 The Life and Afterlife of Burial Mounds in Illinois by Dave Aftandilian ...Are they here — The dead of other days? — and did the dust Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion? Let the mighty mounds Answer. A race, that long has passed away, Built them.... — William Cullen Bryant, from "The Prairies," in Poems (1832) Once upon a time in the Midwest there were mounds, lots of them: ten thousand in the valley of the Ohio River alone, and many more along the Illinois, the Mississippi, and their tributaries. They must have been quite a sight for the early European settlers to see, rising up out of the floodplains like sil Read More Go to Site

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