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<< Other Photo Pages >> Kincaid Mounds - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

Submitted by bat400 on Sunday, 22 June 2008  Page Views: 8065

Multi-periodSite Name: Kincaid Mounds
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 10.299 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Metropolis, IL  Nearest Village: Unionville. IL
Latitude: 37.080722N  Longitude: 88.493085W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
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4 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
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Kincaid Mounds
Kincaid Mounds submitted by Flickr : Kincaid Mounds Archaeological Site, Brookport Photo by Clyde Wills. Image copyright: Enjoy Illinois, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Town, Artificial Mounds in Massac and Pope Counties, Illinois.
The Kincaid Mounds are the visible remainder of a Mississippian Culture town site along the Ohio River. The town was occupied 1050 - 1400 AD, generally concurrent with the building and occupation of similar towns along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, such as Cahokia and Angel Mounds.

The mounds are arrayed around a central plaza. Several are quite large and are obvious to even the casual visitor. Evidence from excavations in the 1930's and 1940's by the University of Chicago indicated wattle and daub homes and large buildings on many of the mounds. For a portion of the life of the town a large stockade fence surrounded this central portion of the town. Finds similar to artifacts found at other Mississippian town sites include a statue of a kneeling figure and ceramic bottles in the form of owls.
An earlier occupation 2000 years ago (Woodland cultural artifacts) was also found beneath the later town site.
The site may be visited during daylight hours. The location given is for an observation platform with information placards interpreting the site. Kincaid Mounds are a National Historic Landmark and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The website of the Kincaid Mounds Support Organization provides location and background information. This organization provides care-taking for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.

Note: $2000 reward for information leading to the arrest of looters digging Ancient Town and burial sites in Southern Illinois.
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Kincaid Mounds
Kincaid Mounds submitted by AKFisher : The Kincaid Mounds in Illinois in the early 1900s (colorized). Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kincaid Mounds
Kincaid Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Wide view of the Kincaid Mounds in Brockport, Illinois. The site was begun around AD 1050. It was completely overgrown in the 1980s when I first saw it. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kincaid Mounds
Kincaid Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Herb Roe's reconstruction of the Kincaid Mounds in Illinois. The painting is on the floodwall murals in downtown Paducah, Kentucky. Image courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kincaid Mounds
Kincaid Mounds submitted by Flickr : Kincaid Mounds in Southern Pope County Brandon Phelps speaking. Image copyright: ben walker 2010, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Kincaid Mounds submitted by Flickr : Kincaid Mounds, Illinois Image copyright: Wander Gal, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Kincaid Mounds
Kincaid Mounds submitted by Flickr : Kincaid Mounds Ancient mounds left by the Mississippian people in Southern Illinois. Image copyright: snfromky, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Thesis Abstract: Mississippian Community-Making through Everyday Items Kincaid Mounds by bat400 on Monday, 26 September 2016
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Tamira K. Brennan
Abstract of Doctoral Dissertation
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
May 2014

This work is all about things. It is about the role that those things play in the human experience, and what they offer to us as archaeologists, whose job is to provide a glimpse into the lives of past peoples. I discuss the things of the past from the theoretical stance of materiality, which assures us that the past is accessible despite the fragmentary nature of its physical remains. This is so because the physical world – objects, landscapes, and space – are imbued with meaning through our interactions with and experiences of them, be they overt and intentional or subconscious and in the background of our active lives. Repeated engagement with the physical world creates habits, memories, and histories and inscribes the social processes that created them upon the tangible world in ways that allow us to interpret the lives of the people with whom we have no direct interaction or accounts.

I use this theory to explore the southern Illinois site of Kincaid Mounds during the latter portion of its Mississippian period occupation, with a focus on how community was constructed and maintained within and through time. I do so using evidence from the non-discursive aspects of ceramic and architectural manufacture under the assumption that the methods of producing these items are habituated and thus reveal communities of learning. I consider contextual evidence to determine what other factors may have been at play in the production of these goods. With statistical analyses, I explore the variation in the way things were made between several spatially discrete neighborhoods at Kincaid Mounds, and discuss those results in terms of the making and manipulation or maintenance of community at this pre-Columbian center, followed by a narrative history of the Middle and Late Kincaid phases. I contrast these finds with those of communities within two other Middle Mississippian regions, Greater Cahokia and the Central Illinois River Valley, in order to discuss the variable processes that led diverse and unique communities to participate in a much broader, imagined Mississippian community.

The entire dissertation is available through http://www.academia.edu>. That website's policies apply.
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Ancient burial mounds in Southern Illinois looted, driven over by bat400 on Thursday, 31 May 2012
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Ancient American Indian burial mounds in Southern Illinois have been damaged and possibly looted, prompting the state's historical agency to call for the public's help in identifying the culprits.
Last month, someone dug several holes in a portion of Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site, a town and religious center of the Mississippian culture of 1,000 years ago, the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency said Friday.

The culprits were probably searching for "grave goods" that Native Americans buried with their dead, although it's unclear if any artifacts or human remains were taken, the agency said. More damage was done to the site recently when an all-terrain vehicle or truck was driven on one of the mounds, where "No Trespassing" signs are posted and ATVs are prohibited, the agency said.

"The criminal disturbance of these human burials in Kincaid Mounds is unconscionable," said Amy Martin, the agency's director. "We hope to apprehend those who are responsible, which will serve as a deterrent to others who may be considering the desecration of our state's heritage."

The site, about 170 miles southeast of St. Louis, has been targeted [in 2008].

The disturbance of archaeological sites or skeletal remains on state-owned property can be a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail, a $10,000 fine, reparations and forfeiture of any vehicles or equipment used in the misdeed. Unsettling of burial sites on public land also may be a felony carrying a three-year prison term and $25,000 fine.

"These mounds are a unique, irreplaceable part of our heritage, and to destroy them for the sake of amusement or profit is a despicable act," Martin said.

For more, including information about a 2010 looter conviction see the AP article.
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Illinois Ancient Burial Ground Looted by bat400 on Sunday, 22 June 2008
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A $2,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for looting an ancient Southern Illinois Native American burial ground.

Officials with the Illinois Historic Preservation agency reported looters have been targeting Kincaid Mounds, a remote site along the Massac-Pope counties line near the Ohio River.

We noticed a trail going out through a wheat field and followed it," said John Schwegman of Metropolis, Ill., who works with the Kincaid Mounds Support Organization. "We found they had dug a hole about 6 feet long, 4 feet deep and 3 to 4 feet wide."

Schwegman said the same site had been looted last summer. The hole was filled in then, but it was targeted again this spring.

"We believe there are at least two, and maybe more looters working, since they were working two holes at the same time," Schwegman said. "They're pretty bold, since they parked their vehicles in our own parking lot."

Investigators said the looters have dug three holes in the Pope County ground and a fourth one a short distance away in Massac County. Pieces of broken flint and stones were discovered near the holes after looters abandoned the sites. The first holes were discovered about six weeks ago.


"Where the looters were digging is a low mound. It was perhaps a platform for a home," Schwegman said. "What's most troubling is the area they have targeted has never been excavated by archaeologists. They're stealing knowledge and information we may never recover about this ancient society." Anyone with information about the looting is asked to call the Massac County Sheriff's Department at (618) 524-2912.



For more, see the Evansville Courier Press.
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