ANCIENT AND PREHISTORIC ILLINOIS ARTICLES

Ancient and Frontier Fortifications in Illinois.

Ancient Chicago Indian Mounds. 
Ancient Illinois History Beginning on the Supercontinent of Pangaea.
Ancient Illinois Indian Mounds - A Technical Examination. 
Ancient Lake Chicago became Lake Michigan as glaciers retreated over 14,000 years ago. 
Archaeologists in East St. Louis, Illinois, dig to find an ancient civilization that vanished. 

Cahokia's 'Beaded Burial' Mound 72, Female Skeletons Identified as Nobles. 

Cahokia's Ceremonial Road Discovered in the Ancient City. 

Cahokia, Did Megafloods Spell the End of the Ancient City? 

Cahokia's History of Five Woodhenges.

Cahokia's Monks Mound was built in decades, not 250 years as previously thought.
Cahokia Mounds and the Indian Village of Cahokia. 

Cahokia Mounds, the Monk and the Earthquake in the Illinois Territory, 1811-1812.
Cahokia, What Caused the Fire that Destroyed this Ancient City?

Chief Pontiac, Head of the Ottawas & Organizer of First Indian Confederation; The Illinois'.

Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals of Illinois.
Discovery of the Indian Effigy Mound in Lake View, Chicago, Perhaps before 1000 AD

Fossils 310M years old "H" & "Y" Animals discovered at Mazon Creek, Braidwood, IL.
How Glacial Melt & Earthquakes Realigned Ancient Rivers and Changed Illinois Borders. 

"The Illinois" Confederacy, Grand Village History (aka La Vantum; Old Kaskaskia Village)
"The Illinois" Confederacy, History in the Illinois Country. 
"The Illinois" Confederacy, Indians bid for power in the late 1600s based on slavery. 
"The Illinois" Confederacy, Massacred at Grand Village by the Iroquois and its Aftermath.

"The Illinois" Confederacy, History from the Illinois Country through the Mid-1830s.
"The Illinois" Confederacy, Women and their Place in the Indian Society.

Illinois' Driftless Region Explained.
Illinois' Greatest Fossil Mystery... solved!

Indian Trails - Green Bay Trail, aka "Old Jambeau Trail," Chicago to Green Bay, WI.
Indian Trails - The Vincennes Trace.
Indian Village, Founded in 1993 Buried Under Sanctuary Golf Course in New Lenox, IL.

Is a Native American tribe one of the Lost Tribes of Israel? Exploring the possibility.
Legend of the Piasa "Bird" is carved and painted on a bluff in today's Alton, Illinois.

Lincoln College and the City of Lincoln, Illinois.
Looters of Prehistoric Archeological Sites a Big Problem in Illinois and Mississippi Valley.
Mammoth and Mastodon Ivory Sales Scam in Illinois.

Out Of Place ARTifacts (OOPArt) found in Illinois. 
Paleo-Indian Migration to North America & Ready/Lincoln Hills Site, Jersey County, Illinois 
Paleo-Indians of the Albany Mounds, the Hopewell Tribe, in Albany, Illinois.
Piney Creek Ravine, near Chester, Illinois, an extensive collection of prehistoric rock art.
Prehistoric Shark Nursery Fossils Found in Illinois. 

Sinnissippi Mounds on the Rock River in Sterling, Illinois.
Study of Pre-Historic Man in Whiteside County, Illinois, from the 1870s.