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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Elizabeth Mound Complex Alternative Name: Elizabeth Mounds, Elizabeth SiteCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 50.748 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Qunicy, IL Nearest Village: Valley City, IL
Latitude: 39.706000N Longitude: 90.653W
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 |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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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Barrow Cemetery in Pike County, Illinois. A Havana Hopewell Culture funeral mound complex on a bluff overlooking the Illinois River. Most of the burials were dated to the Middle Woodland era (ca. 1 BCE) but the area was also used as an earlier Archaic era burial site (ca. 2000 BCE.)
This group of small conical burial mounds was excavated in the 1970 - 80's when the site was slated to be overbuilt by highway bridge constructions. [Author note: I have not determined if there is any trace of the site remaining. The location given is general to the nearby modern village and is not representative of any feature of this site.]
This site was determined to be associated with a camp or periodic settlement (Napolean Hollow) on the floodplain and lower slopes of the Illinois River.
The earlier Archaic burials consisted of both intact burials (some with evidence of the remains having been buried or re-buried after rituals that took place after partial decomposition) and bundle burials. Scattered bones and bone framents indicated that the area had been a cemetary site for generations.
Later Hopewell culture mounds (14 mounds, some as large as 8 feet high and 90 feet in diameter) contained multiple burials. Some burials were in central tombs, surrounded by additional burials, with grave goods and animal burials.
References:
Claassen, Cheryl, Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America: An Interpretive Guide, University of Alabama Press, Jun 15, 2015.
Perri, A.; Martin, T.; Farnsworth, K,; "A Bobcat Burial and Other Reported Intentional Animal Burials from Illinois Hopewell Mounds", Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Volume 40, Issue 3 (Fall, 2015).
Note: Ancient bobcat skeleton found buried with humans. The Megalithic Portal provides more information on this news story, see the comment on our page
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