Small clay human effigy. Note the
headdress, which resembles some on the clay spindle whorl found
near the stockade. |
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Clay human effigy. Dickson Mounds
Museum. |
Effigy of arms with closed fist.
Cahokia Museum. |
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Dickson Mounds, Havana, Illinois.
This was a Woodland village site which may have had an intrusive
Mississippian occupation or whose occupants may have taken
on some Mississippian culture traits. This circular house
is dated approximately A.D. 1000. The domestic implements
found here were classic Mississippian. Note the circular
trench for wall posts, the storage pits, and the fire pit
in the center. Dickson Mounds Museum. |
Cross shaped house,
Dickson Mounds. This house, which was built between A.D.
1200 and 1300, was burned, as the charcoal pieces on the
floor suggest. These are remains of the roof supports. Note
on the left the trench and the outer earth support for the
wall uprights. This house is similar to two others in the
Dickson Mounds area. |
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Dickson Mounds contains
a large Mississippian cemetery. This group of eight burials,
probably contemporaneous, includes both extended burials in
the flesh and a bundle burial.
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