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The state archaeology park lies in south-western Illinois between East St. Louis and Collinsville. [4] The park covers 2,200 acres (890 ha), or about 3.5 square miles (9 km 2 ), and contains about 80 manmade mounds, but the ancient city was much larger.
A map showing approximate areas of various Mississippian and related cultures. The Koster Site is located near the center of this map in the upper part of the Middle Mississippi area. The Koster Site is a prehistoric archaeological site located south of Eldred, Illinois. The site covers more than 3 acres and extends 30 feet down into the ...
The Kincaid Mounds Historic Site (11MX2-11; 11PO2-10) [3] c. 1050–1400 CE, [4] is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located at the southern tip of present-day U.S. state of Illinois, along the Ohio River.
The Cahokia Woodhenge was a series of large timber circles located roughly 850 metres (2,790 ft) to the west of Monks Mound at the Mississippian culture Cahokia archaeological site near Collinsville, Illinois, United States.
The Dickson Mounds Museum is a museum erected on the site in 1972 by the U.S. state of Illinois; it describes the life cycles and culture of Native Americans living in the Illinois River valley over a period of 12,000 years since the last ice age. The museum is part of the Illinois State Museum system. [5]
The site is located on a high sand terrace above the Des Moines River floodplain off Clark County Road 188 two miles south-southeast of St. Francisville, Missouri. [6] [7] [8] A walking trail of one and a quarter miles has interpretive signage, the remains of a typical Illinois Tribe–style long house, an oxbow lake, and an example of an Illinois round house. [9]
Spiro and other Mississippian towns clearly looked to the great city of Cahokia, in what now is southern Illinois, as a cultural model to be emulated. Located about 400 miles northeast of Spiro near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, Cahokia was the largest and most impressive of all the Mississippian towns.
This is a list of archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites . [ 1 ]