Mound 72, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
Facts and practical information
Mound 72 is a small ridgetop mound located roughly 850 meters to the south of Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois. Early in the site's history, the location began as a circle of 48 large wooden posts known as a "woodhenge". The woodhenge was later dismantled and a series of mortuary houses, platform mounds, mass burials and eventually the ridgetop mound erected in its place. The mound was the location of the "beaded burial", an elaborate burial of an elite personage thought to have been one of the rulers of Cahokia, accompanied by the graves of several hundred retainers and sacrificial victims. ()
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
Mound 72 – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Gateway Motorsports Park, Fairmount Park Racetrack, Monks Mound, World's Largest Catsup Bottle.