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Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites. [1] More than eighty different sites in Illinois are listed under this criterion, including both Native American ...
Category: Archaeological sites in Illinois. 7 languages. ... This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Illinois, in the United States
December 18, 1978 [ 2 ] The Riverton Site is an archaeological site located immediately west of the Wabash River and northeast of Palestine, Illinois. The site, which dates from the Late Archaic period (3000-1000 BCE), is the type site of the Riverton culture. The Riverton culture, of which only three known sites had been discovered as of 1978 ...
The Grand Village of the Illinois, also called Old Kaskaskia Village, is a site significant for being the best documented historic Native American village in the Illinois River valley. It was a large agricultural and trading village of Native Americans of the Illinois confederacy, located on the north bank of the Illinois River near the present ...
The Koster Site is a prehistoric archaeological site located south of Eldred, Illinois. The site covers more than 3 acres and extends 30 feet down into the alluvial deposits of the Illinois River valley. Over the course of its excavation between 1969 and 1978, Koster produced deeply buried evidence of ancient human occupation from the early ...
Marseilles Hydro Plant. Marshall Site (Chillicothe, Illinois) Mayberry Mound and Village Site. McCune Mound and Village Site. Millstone Bluff. Millville, Illinois. Mitchell Archaeological Site (Mitchell, Illinois) Modoc Rock Shelter. Morris Wide Water Canal Boat Site.
December 22, 1978. The Briscoe Mounds, officially Illinois Archaeological Survey No. Wi-25, is an archaeological site in Channahon, Illinois. The mound site is located along the north edge of the Des Plaines River and is the largest mound site in northern Illinois. The site takes its name from the Briscoe family, who owned the property until ...
80001396 [1] Added to NRHP. November 26, 1980. The Horseshoe Lake Mound and Village Site is a pre-Columbian archaeological site located on the northeast shore of Horseshoe Lake in Madison County, Illinois. The site includes a platform temple mound and a village site with the remains of multiple houses. The site was inhabited by Mississippian ...