In the article Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson’s Mounds, Alan H. Goodman and George J. Armelagos discuss the power of burial grounds. 200 of 3,000 estimated burials were uncovered and identified by a team of (University of Chicago) archeologists, all of which were identified as a number of settlement sites in a 100-square-mile area (in west-central Illinois). The mounds had gone somewhat unnoticed since the mid nineteenth century. It wasn’t until after, chiropractor, Don Dickson, started to take an interest in the mounds, and start an excavation, that the area began to attract the attention of professional archeologists. They wanted to find out if there was a link between agricultural changes and dieses (Goodman, Armelagos 94). In the 1960’s