Fisher Mound Group

Fisher Mound Group
Fisher Mound Group is located in Illinois
Fisher Mound Group
Location in Illinois
Fisher Mound Group is located in the United States
Fisher Mound Group
Location in United States
LocationWill County, Illinois
Coordinates41°19′17″N 88°15′00″W / 41.32139°N 88.25000°W / 41.32139; -88.25000

The Fisher Mound Group is a group of burial mounds with an associated village site located on the DesPlaines River near its convergence with the Kankakee River where they combine to form the Illinois River, in Will County, Illinois, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago. It is a multi-component stratified site representing several Prehistoric Upper Mississippian occupations as well as minor Late Woodland and Early Historic components.[1]

The site contains a total of 12 burial mounds, the main ones being the Big East Mound and the Big West Mound. Around the mounds are 50 house pits.[1]

  1. ^ a b Langford, George (1927). "The Fisher Mound Group, Successive Aboriginal Occupations near the Mouth of the Illinois River". American Anthropologist. 29 (3): 152–206.