Did you know that archaeology is a destructive science, and that there is archaeology right here in Illinois? The Winfield Mounds are Indian burial mounds in Winfield, Illinois, and could date all the way back to about one thousand years back but could also be pretty recent. Indians came to the mounds a while ago because of its natural resources such as good wood, animals, and water to drink and use. The Indians made these mounds to bury people who have died. Then, in the middle of the 1800s, Europeans farmers came. Sometime in the 1920s, vandals disturbed these mounds. An amateur scientist did his dig, and because he did not find anything and knew that it would be hard for him to do so by himself, he called the University of Chicago to help. The university dug out the first mound, which was the only mound the vandals did not loot. They also looked for more artifacts in the mounds that were already looted in a unique and smart way. Archaeologists then worked on what they found when they also dug up a part of the mounds and saw that they found an arrowhead and a big sherd. They found bones, but when they were touched, they crumbled. Then in the 1970s, the professor of Wheaton College, Dr. James Jennings, after asking for permission, dug two mounds but was unsuccessful. Then he tried again with other archaeologists and found arrowheads as well as pottery sherds. These artifacts are in the University of Wisconsin right now. But the last "dig" was the most important and showed up all the changes in archaeology as time passed. Dr. Doug Kullen restored these mounds instead of digging them. He showed academic work, as well as markers at the Winfield Mounds. Brian and Joyce Ostberg had videos that tell you about the Winfield Mounds. ^{[1][2][3][4][5]} The Wheaton Christian Grammar School Robotics Team made a brochure about them. Dr. Adam Miglio, who is an archaeologist and works at Wheaton College, suggested to the Robotics Team that they should look into the Winfield Mounds, and that is how a good idea formed: the idea of making a brochure to tell people about the mounds and inform them about how it is bad to loot. They would do this with the simple yet amazingly made brochure. Ellie Stankiewicz is a cultural resource management expert and helped the making of the brochure by confirming that the main problem about the Winfield Mounds is that people did not know about it. When the robotics team went to the Winfield Mounds, they asked Dr. Melissa Harkrider who is an expert in Indians, to give them a tour of the site. The Native Americans made the effigy mounds and they were used for burying. All of the mounds "had significant cultural, geographical, and spiritual importance," according to the robotics team. They said, "People at our school have driven by them for years and not known that they existed. We realized that we could do something about this by creating a brochure and telling those in our community about this important site." They shared the complete brochure with lots of people, including family members, libraries, and the sixth graders at their school. They said that the brochure was a good idea, that it was fun to read, and pleasing to look at. The robotics team used websites such as these ^[6] and also ^[7]to help them learn more about archaeology and have an introduction about the Winfield mounds.