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<< Other Photo Pages >> Dickson Mounds - Barrow Cemetery in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dickson Mounds
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 49.432 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Lewistown, IL
Latitude: 40.350000N  Longitude: 90.116W
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Dickson Mounds
Dickson Mounds submitted by bat400 : Museum at Dickson Mounds, Illinois. Photographer: MattHucke, 2008. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Barrow Cemetery and Museum in Fulton County, Illinois.
American cultures since the last Ice Age have settled in the Illinois River Valley. This site had both Woodland (800AD) and Mississippian (1250AD) mounds and evidence of settlement for these eras and habitation from earlier eras. Extensive burials from all eras were also found and excavated at this site. The grounds also include several ancient village sites.

Don Dickson began excavating burial mounds on his family's farm in 1927 and opened an early private museum on the site. For several mounds the human remains were left in situ and the excavation roofed over. His amateur but meticulous work attracted national attention. In the late 1940's the site was sold to the State of Illinois, which continued to exhibit the excavation and artifacts. In 1972 the present museum building was opened, which still included portions of the exposed burial mound. In 1992, under substantial controversy, the human remains were reinterred and the museum closed for major renovation and the creation of new exhibits.

The current museum has permanent exhibits which detail the Illinois River Valley prehistory, including human occupation and the mound building cultures. The museum grounds include several prehistoric village sites: The 1500 year old Woodland Meyer-Dickson site, the 900 year old Mississippian Eveland village with the excavated remains of three ceremonial buildings, the Ogden-Fettie mound and village site, and the Larsen mound and village site.

National Register of Historic Places, #72000457.
Historic Significance: Information Potential, Event Area of Significance: Education, Prehistoric Cultural Affiliation: Mississippian, Archaic Period of Significance: 1499-1000 AD Owner: State , Private Historic Function: Domestic, Funerary Historic Sub-function: Graves/Burials, Village Site Current Function: Education Current Sub-function: Research Facility

The location is approximate, and does not define any particular site within the museum park. The museum website can be found here.

Note: Illinois' Dickson Mounds Remains Support Dental Hypothesis.
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Dickson Mounds submitted by durhamnature : Old photo of excavation from "Mound Builders..." via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Dickson Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Commentary courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). The Ogden-Fettie Mound Group at Dickson Mounds near Lewistown, Illinois. The site had 10 burial mounds and a platform mound. It is dated to AD 800. [Wiki: MattHucke] (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Dickson Mounds submitted by durhamnature : Old photo of excavation from "Mound Builders..." via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Ancient tooth enamel defects linked with premature death by bat400 on Wednesday, 10 February 2010
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A study reveals ancient human teeth showing evidence that stressful events during early development are linked to shorter lifespans.
Anthropologist George Armelagos led a systematic review of defects in teeth enamel and early mortality. He said: ‘Prehistoric remains are providing strong, physical evidence that people who acquired tooth enamel defects while in the womb or early childhood tended to die earlier.

His paper is the first summary of prehistoric evidence for the Barker hypothesis – the idea that many adult diseases originate during foetal development and early childhood.

He added: ‘Teeth are like a snapshot into the past. Since the chronology of enamel development is well known, it's possible to determine the age at which a physiological disruption occurred. The evidence is there, and it's indisputable.'

The Barker hypothesis is named after epidemiologist David Barker, who during the 1980s began studying links between early infant health and later adult health. Tooth enamel can give a particularly telling portrait of physiological events, since the enamel is secreted in a regular, ring-like fashion, starting from the second trimester of foetal development.
Disruptions in the formation of the enamel, which can be caused by disease, poor diet or psychological stress, show up as grooves on the tooth surface.

For the Evolutionary Biology paper, Armelagos led a review of the evidence from eight published studies, applying the lens of the Barker hypothesis to remains.

In [an] example, remains from Dickson Mounds, Illinois, showed that individuals with teeth marked by early life stress lived 15.4 years fewer than those without the defects, says an EU release.



For more, see dentistry.co.uk.
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Dickson Mounds hosts lecture on History of Amateur Archaeologists by bat400 on Thursday, 20 September 2007
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Dickson Mounds Museum Archaeologist Alan Harn will present an illustrated lecture titled “Igniting the Torch: Amateurs, Adventures, and the Advancement of American Archaeology,” at 2 p.m. on 23 Sept at the museum. The event is being conducted to celebrate Illinois Archaeology Awareness Month.

Dr. Don Dickson's 1927 excavation of a portion of Dickson Mounds and its in-place display to the public was quickly followed by his uncle Marion and Ernest Dickson's excavation and display of archaeological remains found in log tombs at the nearby Ogden Mounds. These and other excavations created an archaeological firestorm thrusting this formerly secluded location into the international spotlight.

As an expanding group of lay people began to delve into Illinois' past, Dickson Mounds-like excavations were undertaken near Peoria and Washburn, and similar large-scale amateur excavations of Native American burial sites were opened in Florida, Kentucky, and Kansas.

Drawn by the early excavations, the University of Chicago established near Dickson Mounds the first school in archaeological field technique undertaken in the eastern United States. Many important archaeological procedures that still guide scientific investigations today would be developed there in the early 1930s, and a number of the early University of Chicago field school students would go on to become eminent in American and world archaeology.

For more see the Canton Daily Ledger and visit the museum's web site at ">this link.
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