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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Montezuma Mound Group Alternative Name: McEvers Mound, 11PK1245 (group)Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 35.639 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Montezuma, IL
Latitude: 39.552790N Longitude: 90.57952W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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The Montezuma Mound group consists of 15 blufftop mounds overlooking the Illinois River in Pike County, Illinois near the town of Montezuma. Excavations took place in 1904 (Bushnell 1905; Fowke 1905; Bayliss 1907) and 1956 (Perino 2006), indicated the mounds were Early to Middle Woodland burial monuments dating to approximately 100 BCE. Many discoveries were made in Mound #1 (McEvers Mound) as confirmed by Perino in 1956 including over 1,100 bifaces (chert blades). A 6-foot long skeleton was also found with 72 very large shell beads.
References:
1. Koldehoff, Brad H., Symbolic Bifaces; The Cache from Montezuma Mound #1, Pike County, Illinois, 2006
2. Little, Gregory Ed.D., Twitter entry Nov 22, 2022 (photo caption)
Further reading and information:
Illinois State Museum
Directions: Location is on private property north and east of Montezuma, IL (annotated LAT/LONG above). Always gain permissions before accessing sites on private property.
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