Cahokia, The Great Native American Metropolis

By Young, Biloine W.

Book Id: WPLBN0000472001
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 05/30/08

Title:	Cahokia, The Great Native American Metropolis
Author:	Young, Biloine W.
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Mississippian culture -- Illinois American Bottom, Indians of North America -- Urban residence Illinois American Bottom, Excavations (Archaeology) -- Illinois American Bottom History
Collections:	American Libraries Collection
Historic Publication Date:	2000
Publisher:	Urbana; University of Illinois Press; Digitizer: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign


Citation APA MLA Chicago W., 192, Y. B., & L. (Melvin Leo), 192, F. M. (2000). Cahokia, The Great Native American Metropolis. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-353) and index; The making of a Cahokia archaeologist -- The Illinois Archaeological Survey and the prehistory of Cahokia -- Early investigation into the Great Mounds -- The destruction of the Powell and Murdock Mounds -- The Hopewellian Ceramic Conference and digging the Modoc rock shelter -- Chaos and confusion at Cahokia -- The 1960s highway salvage program begins -- The emerging picture of a complex Cahokia -- The excavation of mound 72 -- Excavations on Monks Mound -- New sequential ceramic phase defined --; The second highway salvage project -- The struggle to build a new Cahokia museum -- The slumping of Monks Mound and discovery of the Grand Plaza -- Woodhenges revisited -- The physical landscape of Cahokia -- The spiritual landscape of Cahokia -- Cahokia's engineers and builders -- The outposts of Cahokia -- The abandonment of Cahokia -- Cahokia's place in the pre-conquest world; Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill. ); American Bottom (Ill. ) -- Antiquities

Summary
Digitizer: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign