Author: William R. IsemingerPublisher: Landmarks
ISBN: 9781596297340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Description of archaeological site known as the Cahokia Mounds in western Illinois.
Cahokia Mounds
Author: William R. IsemingerPublisher: Landmarks
ISBN: 9781596297340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Description of archaeological site known as the Cahokia Mounds in western Illinois.
Cahokia Mounds
Author: Timothy R. PauketatPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190289139
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
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.
Cahokia
Author: Timothy R. PauketatPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143117475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
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.
Feeding Cahokia
Author: Gayle J. FritzPublisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817320059
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Winner of the 2020 Society for Economic Botany's Mary W. Klinger Book Award An authoritative and thoroughly accessible overview of farming and food practices at Cahokia Agriculture is rightly emphasized as the center of the economy in most studies of Cahokian society, but the focus is often predominantly on corn. This farming economy is typically framed in terms of ruling elites living in mound centers who demanded tribute and a mass surplus to be hoarded or distributed as they saw fit. Farmers are cast as commoners who grew enough surplus corn to provide for the elites. Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland presents evidence to demonstrate that the emphasis on corn has created a distorted picture of Cahokia’s agricultural practices. Farming at Cahokia was biologically diverse and, as such, less prone to risk than was maize-dominated agriculture. Gayle J. Fritz shows that the division between the so-called elites and commoners simplifies and misrepresents the statuses of farmers—a workforce consisting of adult women and their daughters who belonged to kin groups crosscutting all levels of the Cahokian social order. Many farmers had considerable influence and decision-making authority, and they were valued for their economic contributions, their skills, and their expertise in all matters relating to soils and crops. Fritz examines the possible roles played by farmers in the processes of producing and preparing food and in maintaining cosmological balance. This highly accessible narrative by an internationally known paleoethnobotanist highlights the biologically diverse agricultural system by focusing on plants, such as erect knotweed, chenopod, and maygrass, which were domesticated in the midcontinent and grown by generations of farmers before Cahokia Mounds grew to be the largest Native American population center north of Mexico. Fritz also looks at traditional farming systems to apply strategies that would be helpful to modern agriculture, including reviving wild and weedy descendants of these lost crops for redomestication. With a wealth of detail on specific sites, traditional foods, artifacts such as famous figurines, and color photos of significant plants, Feeding Cahokia will satisfy both scholars and interested readers.
Revealing Greater Cahokia, North America's First Native City
Author: Thomas E. EmersonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781930487550
Category : American Bottom (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
Journey to Cahokia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781881563020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Cahokia Mounds
Author: Warren King MooreheadPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081731010X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive collection of Moorehead's investigations of the nation's largest prehistoric mound center
Cahokia, the Great Native American Metropolis
Author: Biloine W. YoungPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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.
Ancient Cahokia and the Mississippians
Author: Timothy R. PauketatPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521520669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Using a wealth of archaeological evidence, this book outlines the development of Mississippian civilization.
The Cahokia Atlas
Author: Melvin Leo FowlerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780964488137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description