Vast Mississippian village dig uncovers record limestone finds
Brookyn area dig into half acre reveals 80 rectangular homes in a prehistoric Mississippian village near Cahokia Mounds. Excavation director Chuck Moffat of the American Bottoms Survey says the limestone abundance could reshape ideas on Mississippian farming and hunting peoples who inhabited the region 1 400 to 1 000 years ago. The site lies along planned Illinois 3 relocation, near a 19th century cemetery, with Cahokia Mounds five miles east as a potential center of Mississippian culture.
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Brooklyn
Chuck Moffat
Moffat
Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program
Illinois 3
Cahokia Mounds
North America
Collinsville
Illinois
Volunteers salvage rare books from abandoned East St. Louis library
A dozen volunteers salvage about 10 000 items from the deserted 2001 East St. Louis library. They recover two Emerson collections from the 1860s and other out of print gems while clearing rot, trash, and waste from the dark building. The effort follows the library move and ongoing shelter use of the site by the homeless.
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East ST. Louis
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cynthia E. Jones
Jones
Reginald Petty
Associated Press
Carl Officer
Petty
Wyvetter Younge
Jeanella Stovall
Patti Simon reflects on Paul Simon life and Lincoln Fellowships
Patti Simon recalls Paul Simon guiding others and pursuing new projects at 75, detailing his final chapters and ongoing Lincoln Fellowships. She describes his habit of writing, traveling with a typewriter, and urging community involvement through school boards, while noting his family roles and planned interviews and studies abroad initiatives.
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Paul Simon
Patti Derge
Paul
U.S
SIU archaeologists unearth Wilkinson camp in Pulaski County
SIU archaeologists uncover remnants of Cantonment Wilkinson in a muddy river field near the Ohio in Pulaski County. The site housed up to 1500 soldiers in 1801 1802 and yielded china fragments nails bricks window glass and a boot heel. Local residents led the dig which aims to preserve artifacts and tell how Wilkinsonville housed troops before Lewis and Clark traveled the Mississippi.
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SIU
Pulaski County
Republic
Wilkinson
James Wilkinson
U.S
Alexander Hamilton
George Washington
Mississippi River
Washington
Hamilton
Southern Illinois University
Robert Moore
National Park Service
St. Louis
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
Lewis and Clark
Thomas Rodney
SIUC
Mark Wagner
Center For Archaeological Investigations
Wagner
Fort Massac
Wilkinsonville
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Ohio River
Skeletons Found In Fox Lake Yard Believed Native American
Michael and Joanne Thompson found three bones in their Fox Lake yard on August 13 while digging a drainage ditch. Coroner Jim Wipper confirmed a man a woman and a child, over 100 years old, not a crime. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency to examine. bones will stay in place under plywood for now.
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Fox Lake
Michael
Joanne Thompson
Lake County
Jim Wipper
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
Wipper
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