Read the full story from the Illinois State Archaeological Survey.
A massive archaeological site in St. Clair County, Illinois, was excavated by ISAS for the Illinois Department of Transportation between 1998 and 2007 to make way for a new bridge over the Mississippi River. Now known as Janey B. Goode, this site was intensively inhabited and used by Native people living a millennium ago. ISAS archaeologists excavated some 7,000 discrete “features,” locations of trash-filled storage pits and houses, among other things, near the banks of the Mississippi River where people of “Woodland” and “Mississippian” cultures once lived. ISAS archaeologists are still working on the final report, but that’s not all.
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