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<< Our Photo Pages >> Emerald Mound, Illinois - Artificial Mound in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

Submitted by bat400 on Friday, 06 July 2007  Page Views: 11612

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Emerald Mound, Illinois Alternative Name: 71001026
Country: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
 Nearest Village: Lebanon, IL
Latitude: 38.631000N  Longitude: 89.7844W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Emerald Mound, Illinois
Emerald Mound, Illinois submitted by bat400 : Emerald Mound was built on the top of a local rise above Silver Creek. A village surrounded this central mound, but very little of any other structures remain. The mound itself is owned by the State of Illinois, but it is surrounded by privately owned farm land. Photo by bat400 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mound in St. Clair County, Illinois. A stepped pyramidal earthen mound. This was the largest mound in a small Mississippian village. It was likely a satellite community of Cahokia.

Middle Mississippian (1000AD - 1400AD). The site is owned by the state, but lies in the middle of privately owned farm land. The mound can be viewed from the county roads to the north, east, and south of the mound. There is a hint of a rise SW of the mound in the plowed fields - its difficult to tell if this might be other earthworks, now much reduced. A National Register of Historic Places site.
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Emerald Mound, Illinois
Emerald Mound, Illinois submitted by bat400 : Taken from the road east of the mound. With the tree cover, it is difficult to make out that the mound is rectangular with a flat top. Photo by bat400, 14 Oct 2007. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Emerald Mound, Illinois
Emerald Mound, Illinois submitted by AKFisher : 1881 Illustration of the "Mound Farm" near Lebanon, Illinois, today called Emerald. There is a low platform mound in the left center, but behind the tree in the very center, by the large house, is a huge platform mound. From: History of St. Clair County, Illinois, 1881. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

Emerald Mound, Illinois
Emerald Mound, Illinois submitted by bat400 : Taken from the road southwest of the mound. In this view you are below the rise of a natural hill that the village (no visible signs) and the central platform mound were built on. I am unsure if the slight hill on earth in the left of the photo is a portion of earthwork associated with the village or an additional mound. Photo by bat400, 14 Oct 2007. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Video of recent work at recent work at Emerald Mounds by Anonymous on Sunday, 02 April 2023
I have a 1967 newspaper article about the Emerald Mound what was at that time "being dug up for landfill" but some historians were trying to stop this. Mr. and Mrs. Hock lived there at that time having purchased the farm in 1951 Dirt from the Emerald Mound was then being sold to contractors and had been going on for 6 to 7 years, according to the Hocks.
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Emerald Mounds aligned with the moon’s phases by Andy B on Monday, 04 May 2015
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Archaeology expert to speak at Cahokia Mounds (Event happened back in Feb but the write-up has some info on new work at Emerald Mound)

Archaeologists can look at the immense Cahokia Mounds. They can dig up bits of pottery and tools. They can even find human remains. But what do these physical traces reveal about the religion followed by the people who lived here 1,000 years ago?

Susan Alt will try to answer that question Feb. 22 when she speaks at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. The free event begins at 2 p.m.

Alt, a Ph.D. from Indiana University, has spent years researching the mounds. Most recently, she has excavated Emerald Mound, a site about 25 miles from the historic site, near the town of Lebanon, Ill. She has found evidence of structures there that may have served as shrines and living quarters for people making pilgrimages to and from Cahokia.

She and her husband, Timothy Pauketat of the University of Illinois, believe Emerald Mounds was aligned with the moon’s phases and attracted religious pilgrims from all across the Midwest. Their findings suggest it predates Cahokia Mounds and helped spur development of Cahokia into a city of 10,000 people or more.

“We’re finding that religion wasn’t an outcome of greater complexity. Rather, greater complexity was a product of a religious movement,” Alt has said.

http://www.theintelligencer.com/local_news/article_412e9ea8-aedc-11e4-aaa8-0b87ca4c40f6.html

See also http://www.bu.edu/historic/riha/recipients/recipients/Field_Research_Cahokia_final.pdf
for more details of the project
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Video of recent work at recent work at Emerald Mounds by Andy B on Monday, 04 May 2015
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Dr. Timothy Pauketat, University of Illinois Professor of Anthropology and ISAS affiliate discusses recent work at Emerald Mounds. To find out more about Emerald Mounds, please visit http://www.archaeology.org and their magazine March/April issue--article entitled City of the Moon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwAjxvL6Y4c
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