The McCune Mound and Village Site is a prehistoric archaeological site located in Whiteside County,

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near the city of Sterling. The site consists of a single mound, high and in diameter, and five depressions that may have been housing sites. The site was occupied by

Upper Mississippian The Upper Mississippian cultures were located in the Upper Mississippi basin and Great Lakes region of the American Midwest. They were in existence from approximately A.D. 1000 until the Protohistoric and early Historic periods (approximately A. ...

peoples from roughly 1200 to 1500 A.D.; it is considered part of the Langford tradition, a subset of Upper Mississippian culture found in northwestern Illinois. Modern archaeologists first documented the site in 1961. As a relatively intact site with a single-component habitation, the site was considered to have the potential to provide significant information on the Langford tradition.Maruszak, Kathleen A. ''National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: McCune Mound and Village Site''.

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, 1979-01. The site was added to the

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on August 16, 1979.

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Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois National Register of Historic Places in Whiteside County, Illinois Mounds in Illinois Mississippian culture {{WhitesideCountyIL-NRHP-stub