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Cahokia
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Author : Timothy R. Pauketat
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Cahokia written by Timothy R. Pauketat and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Social Science categories.
About one thousand years ago, Native Americans built hundreds of earthen platform mounds, plazas, residential areas, and other types of monuments in the vicinity of present-day St. Louis. This sprawling complex, known to archaeologists as Cahokia, was the dominant cultural, ceremonial, and trade center north of Mexico for centuries. This stimulating collection of essays casts new light on the remarkable accomplishments of Cahokia.
Cahokia And The Hinterlands
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Author : Thomas E. Emerson
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1991
Cahokia And The Hinterlands written by Thomas E. Emerson and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
Covering topics as diverse as economic modeling, craft specialization, settlement patterns, agricultural and subsistence systems, and the development of social ranking, Cahokia and the Hinterlands explores cultural interactions among Cahokians and the inhabitants of other population centers, including Orensdorf and the Dickson Mounds in Illinois and Aztalan in Wisconsin, as well as sites in Minnesota, Iowa, and at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Proposing sophisticated and innovative models for the growth, development, and decline of Mississippian culture at Cahokia and elsewhere, this volume also provides insight into the rise of chiefdoms and stratified societies and the development of trade throughout the world.
Cahokia The Great Native American Metropolis
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Author : Biloine W. Young
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2000
Cahokia The Great Native American Metropolis written by Biloine W. Young and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Five centuries before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, indigenous North Americans had already built a vast urban center on the banks of the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. This is the story of North America's largest archaeological site, told through the lives, personalities, and conflicts of the men and women who excavated and studied it. At its height the metropolis of Cahokia had twenty thousand inhabitants in the city center with another ten thousand in the outskirts. Cahokia was a precisely planned community with a fortified central city and surrounding suburbs. Its entire plan reflected the Cahokian's concept of the cosmos. Its centerpiece, Monk's Mound, ten stories tall, is the largest pre-Columbian structure in North America, with a base circumference larger than that of either the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt or the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan in Mexico. Nineteenth-century observers maintained that the mounds, too sophisticated for primitive Native American cultures, had to have been created by a superior, non-Indian race, perhaps even by survivors of the lost continent of Atlantis. Melvin Fowler, the "dean" of Cahokia archaeologists, and Biloine Whiting Young tell an engrossing story of the struggle to protect the site from the encroachment of interstate highways and urban sprawl. Now identified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and protected by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Cahokia serves as a reminder that the indigenous North Americans had a past of complexity and great achievement.
Cahokia
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Author : Timothy R. Pauketat
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-07-30
Cahokia written by Timothy R. Pauketat and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-30 with History categories.
The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization located in modern day Illinois near St. Louis While Mayan and Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relatively few people are familiar with the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico-a site that expert Timothy Pauketat brings vividly to life in this groundbreaking book. Almost a thousand years ago, a city flourished along the Mississippi River near what is now St. Louis. Built around a sprawling central plaza and known as Cahokia, the site has drawn the attention of generations of archaeologists, whose work produced evidence of complex celestial timepieces, feasts big enough to feed thousands, and disturbing signs of human sacrifice. Drawing on these fascinating finds, Cahokia presents a lively and astonishing narrative of prehistoric America.
The Cahokia Mounds
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Author : Warren King Moorehead
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2000-05-02
The Cahokia Mounds written by Warren King Moorehead and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-02 with History categories.
Provides a comprehensive collection of Moorehead's investigations of the nation's largest prehistoric mound center
Cahokia Mounds
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Author : William Iseminger
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2010-03-03
Cahokia Mounds written by William Iseminger and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-03 with History categories.
About one thousand years ago, a phenomenon occurred in a fertile tract of Mississippi River flood plain known today as the "American Bottom." This phenomenon came to be called Cahokia Mounds, America's first city. Interpreting the rich heritage of a site like Cahokia Mounds is a balancing act; the interpreter must speak as a scholar to the general public on behalf of an entirely different civilization. Since even those three groups are splintered into myriad dialects of perspective, sometimes it is hard to know what language to use. But William Iseminger's work at the site has given him nearly four decades of practice in Cahokia Conversation 101, and he tells the story of the place and its ancient culture (as well as its place in contemporary culture) with the clarity and confidence of a native speaker.
The Cahokia Atlas
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Author : Melvin Leo Fowler
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1997
The Cahokia Atlas written by Melvin Leo Fowler and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Cahokia Mounds
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Author : Timothy R. Pauketat
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-05-27
Cahokia Mounds written by Timothy R. Pauketat and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-27 with History categories.
Just a few miles west of Collinsville, Illinois lies the remains of the most sophisticated prehistoric native civilizations north of Mexico. Cahokia Mounds explores the history behind this buried American city inhabited from about AD 700 to 1400, that was almost lost in metropolitan expansions of the 1960s and 1970s, but later became one of the best understood archeological sites in North America.
Ancient Cahokia And The Mississippians
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Author : Timothy R. Pauketat
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-06-17
Ancient Cahokia And The Mississippians written by Timothy R. Pauketat and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-17 with Social Science categories.
Using a wealth of archaeological evidence, this book outlines the development of Mississippian civilization.
Cahokia
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Author : Timothy R. Pauketat
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-07-27
Cahokia written by Timothy R. Pauketat and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-27 with History categories.
The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization located in modern day Illinois near St. Louis While Mayan and Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relatively few people are familiar with the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico-a site that expert Timothy Pauketat brings vividly to life in this groundbreaking book. Almost a thousand years ago, a city flourished along the Mississippi River near what is now St. Louis. Built around a sprawling central plaza and known as Cahokia, the site has drawn the attention of generations of archaeologists, whose work produced evidence of complex celestial timepieces, feasts big enough to feed thousands, and disturbing signs of human sacrifice. Drawing on these fascinating finds, Cahokia presents a lively and astonishing narrative of prehistoric America.