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== Winfield Mounds == |
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Did you know that archaeology is a destructive science, and that there is archaeology right here in Illinois? The Winfield Mounds are Indian burial mounds in Winfield, Illinois, and somewhere in the 1920s, vandals disturbed these mounds. Archaeologists then worked on what they found when they also dug up a part of the mounds and saw that they found an arrowhead and a big sherd. Then in the 1970s, the professor of Wheaton College, Dr. James Jennings, found more of these arrowheads and pottery sherds. But the last “dig” was the most important and showed up all the changes in archaeology as time passed. Dr. Doug Kullen restored these mounds instead of digging them. He showed academic work, as well as markers at the Winfield Mounds. Brian and Joyce Ostberg had videos that |
Did you know that archaeology is a destructive science, and that there is archaeology right here in Illinois? The Winfield Mounds are Indian burial mounds in Winfield, Illinois, and somewhere in the 1920s, vandals disturbed these mounds. Archaeologists then worked on what they found when they also dug up a part of the mounds and saw that they found an arrowhead and a big sherd. Then in the 1970s, the professor of Wheaton College, Dr. James Jennings, found more of these arrowheads and pottery sherds. But the last “dig” was the most important and showed up all the changes in archaeology as time passed. Dr. Doug Kullen restored these mounds instead of digging them. He showed academic work, as well as markers at the Winfield Mounds. Brian and Joyce Ostberg had videos that a . |
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Latest revision as of 22:51, 13 January 2026
Did you know that archaeology is a destructive science, and that there is archaeology right here in Illinois? The Winfield Mounds are Indian burial mounds in Winfield, Illinois, and somewhere in the 1920s, vandals disturbed these mounds. Archaeologists then worked on what they found when they also dug up a part of the mounds and saw that they found an arrowhead and a big sherd. Then in the 1970s, the professor of Wheaton College, Dr. James Jennings, found more of these arrowheads and pottery sherds. But the last “dig” was the most important and showed up all the changes in archaeology as time passed. Dr. Doug Kullen restored these mounds instead of digging them. He showed academic work, as well as markers at the Winfield Mounds. Brian and Joyce Ostberg had videos that tell you about the Winfield Mounds. The Wheaton Christian Grammar School Robotics Team made a brochure about them. Dr. Adam Miglio, who is an archaeologist and works at Wheaton College, suggested to the Robotics Team that they should look into the Winfield Mounds. Ellie Stankiewicz is a cultural resource management expert and helped the making of the brochure by confirming that the main problem about the Winfield Mounds is that people did not know about it.
