The Mound House is an

archeological site An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and ...

located in Greene County,

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in the

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floodplain. The site is a multicomponent site; however, the mounds were constructed during the

Middle Woodland In the classification of :category:Archaeological cultures of North America, archaeological cultures of North America, the Woodland period of North American pre-Columbian cultures spanned a period from roughly 1000 Common Era, BCE to European con ...

and are associated with the

Havana Hopewell culture The Havana Hopewell culture were a Hopewellian people who lived in the Illinois River and Mississippi River valleys in Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri from 200 BCE to 400 CE. Hopewell Interaction Sphere The Hopewell Exchange system began in the Ohi ...

. The mound center has two identified mounds.Maruszak, Kathleen. ''National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mound House Site''.

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, 1977-07, 4. The site received its name because the previous landowner, a farmer, built a house on Mound 1, the largest mound. Since then the house has been removed and the land is owned by the

Center for American Archeology The Center for American Archeology, or CAA, is an independent non-profit 501(c)(3) research and education institution located in Kampsville, Illinois, USA, near the Illinois River. It is dedicated to the exploration of the culture of prehistori ...

. The site was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

on September 1, 1978.

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Havana Hopewell culture Buildings and structures in Greene County, Illinois Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois Mounds in Illinois National Register of Historic Places in Greene County, Illinois {{US-archaeology-stub

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