CAHOKIA MOUNDS

approximately 85 Native American earthworks in Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, SW Ill., near East St. Louis; largest group of mounds N of Mexico. Monks' Mound, a rectangular, flat-topped earthwork, 100 ft (30.5 m) high with a 17-acre (6.9-hectare) base, is named for Trappist monks who settled there in the early 19th cent. The people who constructed the mounds were village dwellers who lived in a fertile river-bottom area; their culture flourished from c.1300 to c.1700. The mounds constitute a national historic landmark.

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books on: Cahokia Mounds  - 186 results

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Cahokia Mounds
Book by Timothy Pauketat, Nancy Stone Bernard; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: American Bottom (Ill.)--Antiquities--Juvenile Literature, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)--Antiquities--Juvenile Literature, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)--Juvenile Literature, Earthworks (Archaeology)--Illinois--American Bottom--Juvenile Literature, Excavations (Archaeology)--Illinois--American Bottom--Juvenile Literature, Mississippian Culture--Illinois--American Bottom--Juvenile Literature
Cahokia Mounds Timothy Pauketat Nancy Stone Bernard...past BRIAN FAGAN General Editor Cahokia Mounds Timothy Pauketat and Nancy Stone...Timothy R. Layout: Lenny Levitsky Cahokia mounds / Timothy R. Pauketat and Nancy Stone...
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Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World
Book by Timothy R. Pauketat, Thomas E. Emerson; University of Nebraska Press, 2000
Subjects: American Bottom (Ill.)--Antiquities, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.), Chiefdoms--Illinois--American Bottom, Indians Of North America--Illinois--American Bottom--Antiquities, Indians Of North America--Illinois--American Bottom--Politics And Government, Mississippian Culture--Illinois--American Bottom
...Political-Administrative Complex 9 1.5 5 Central Cahokia's Mounds and Plazas 13 3 t .6 Post-Circle...4.2 2 Food Utility Indices for Cahokia Mounds 80 4.3 3 %NtsP for Types of...82 4.4 Species Diversity at Cahokia Mounds 84 4.5 5 Emergent Mississippian...
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The Ascent of Chiefs: Cahokia and Mississippian Politics in Native North America
Book by Timothy R. Pauketat; University of Alabama Press, 1994
Subjects: Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.), Chiefdoms, Mississippian Culture
...Other Sites with Mounds 69 4.3. Plan of the Cahokia Site and Immediate...Bushnell 1904; dots are mounds and mound clusters...found in the form of Cahokia, part of the sprawling...see chapter 4). At Cahokia are found the remains of over 100 earthen mounds, most of which probably...
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Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power
Book by Thomas E. Emerson; University of Alabama Press, 1997
Subjects: American Bottom (Ill.)--Antiquities, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.), Indians Of North America--Illinois--American Bottom--Antiquities, Mississippian Culture--Illinois--American Bottom, Social Archaeology--Illinois--American Bottom
...provided by the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site...temple mound centers, Cahokia, far exceeded the...Estimates place about 120 mounds within the site boundaries...number of smaller mounds and plazas, along...In addition to Cahokia, which was the major...
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The Troyville Mounds, Catahoula Parish, La
Book by Winslow M. Walker; 1936
Subjects: Catahoula Parish (La.)--Antiquities, Louisiana--History--Ancient, Mounds--Louisiana, Troyville mounds (Catahoula Parish, La.)
...Troyville Great Mound with Cahokia, Etowah, and Grave Creek Mounds 7 4...the great mound to the great Cahokia or...by a group of ten or twelve mounds of smaller size." 5 This...
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journal articles on: Cahokia Mounds  - 8 results

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Mirror of the Cosmos
Journal article by Karl Hele; Urban History Review, Vol. 32, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos (Book)--Book reviews
...attempt to situate the Cahokia mounds and surrounding area...any one period in Cahokias diverse history...humanity has imbued the mounds with meaning. The...Illinois, gave the mounds recreational value...designation when Cahokia became a World Heritage...
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Monumental Architecture in West Polynesia: Origins, Chiefs and Archaeological Approaches
Journal article by Geoffrey Clark, Helene Martinsson-Wallin; Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 42, 2007
Subjects: Archaeologists--Practice, Archaeology and history--Research, Architectural history--Analysis, Historical archaeology--Research, Mounds--Design and construction, Mounds--Usage, Polynesia--History
...been examined in depth, but in Samoa several of the largest mounds, including Pulemelei, have their longest axis oriented east-west...basis of authority (Mock 1998; Stross 1998). The demise of the Cahokia chiefdom of the Mississippi River Valley at 1250AD is also...
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More Than Green Acres
Journal article by Richard W. Long; Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, Vol. 14, 1999
Subjects: Rural conditions--Analysis, Rural development--Analysis
...development of places with historical or archeological significance, such as Civil and Revolutionary War battlefields, the Cahokia Mounds in Illinois and Missouri, and heritage areas in New England. Typically, these projects include acquisition of property...
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PART ONE: The Antiquities Act of 1906 by Ronald Freeman Lee
Journal article by Raymond Harris Thompson; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 42, 2000
Subjects: Antiquities Act, Antiquities--Protection and preservation, Archaeology and history--United States, Historic sites, Historical archaeology--United States, Lee, Ronald Freeman--Political activity, National parks and reserves--History, National parks--History, Native American antiquities, Native Americans, Presidents (Government)--Laws, regulations and rules, Presidents--Laws, regulations and rules, United States--Political aspects, Western States
...two years ago I visited the mounds of the Mississippi Valley and...Western Hemisphere--the Great Cahokia Mound" (Baum 1904a: 103) On...1958, Vol. 4, App. A): mounds, pyramids, cemeteries, graves...College, an authority on the mounds of Ohio (Records of the Past...
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1491: In Search of Native America
Journal article by W. George Lovell, Henry F. Dobyns, William M. Denevan, William I. Woods, Charles C. Mann; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 46, 2004
...and numerous immense earthen mounds, including Monks Mound, the...perhaps fifteen thousand or more, Cahokia covered an area in excess of...disruptive, horrible trauma, Cahokia and its environs had become...certainly not the high point for Cahokia, nor for other settlement systems...
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Indians Created First Major Urban Centers
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 133, April 2005
Subjects: Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois--Buildings and facilities, Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois--History, Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois--Protection and preservation, Mississippian culture--Analysis, Native American culture--Exhibitions, Native American culture--History, Native American history--Analysis, Native Americans--Analysis, Native Americans--Culture, Native Americans--Exhibitions, Native Americans--History, Prehistoric peoples--History
...through May 30. Mystery of the Cahokia Mounds Flourishing with art, science...metropolitan areas in the world. Cahokia Mounds, site of the largest prehistoric...ancient city have been preserved at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, a 2,200-acre...
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Revisiting the Mound-Builder Controversy
Magazine article by Thomas S. Garlinghouse; History Today, Vol. 51, September 2001
Subjects: Mound-builders--Research, Mounds--Research, Native Americans--Antiquities
...where huge platform mounds are often surrounded...great earthworks like Cahokia, Illinois; Moundville...Once, however, the mounds were hubs of activity...ceremonial centre of Cahokia had an estimated...largest earthwork at Cahokia, Monks Mound, a series...Moundville -- twenty mounds build around a central...
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Southern Illinois
Magazine article by Kai El'Zabar; American Visions, Vol. 13, April 1998
Subjects: African Americans--Travel, Illinois--Description and travel
...another dozen parks await you and your family. At the Cahokia Mounds, site of an American Indian culture that flourished...Mansion, 124 E. First St. (Route 3 and Highway 157), Cahokia Those buried here were among the first French settlers...
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1491: Before It Became the New World, the Western Hemisphere Was Vastly More Populous and Sophisticated Than Has Been Thought-An Altogether More Salubrious Place to Live at the Time Than, Say, Europe. New Evidence of Both the Extent of the Population and Its Agricultural Advancement Leads to a Remarkable Conjecture: The Amazon Rain Forest May Be Largely a Human Artifact
Magazine article by Charles C. Mann; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 289, March 2002
Subjects: America--History, American history, Brazil--Natural resources, Rain forests--Environmental aspects
...got there, trudging along the desolate Cahokia River, he was "struck with a degree of...Around it were more than a hundred smaller mounds, covering an area of five square miles...To Brackenridge, it seemed clear that Cahokia and the many other ruins in the Midwest...
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1491: Before It Became the New World, the Western Hemisphere Was Vastly More Populous and Sophisticated Than Has Been Thought ... the Amazon Rain Forest May Be Largely a Human Artifact
Magazine article by Charles C. Mann; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 289, March 2002
Subjects: Amazon River Region, Balee, William, Erickson, Clark, Native South Americans--History, Rain forests
...got there, trudging along the desolate Cahokia River, he was "struck with a degree of...Around it were more than a hundred smaller mounds, covering an area of five square miles...To Brackenridge, it seemed clear that Cahokia and the many other ruins in the Midwest...
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Illinois Mounds Tell of Lost Indian City
Newspaper article by Ron Jones; The Washington Times, January 6, 2001
...man-made mounds of earth at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site...preserved within the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site...Mississippians who had built the mounds. The historic site...archaeologists have uncovered at Cahokia in the past couple decades...
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The Briefs
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 9, 2004
...from Hough Street School in Barrington traveled to Hartford and Cahokia to study history in May. They began at the Cahokia Mounds just east of St. Louis where they studied the ancient Mississippian culture of the Indians who lived there. At Hartford...
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Arbor Ardor A Love of Trees Makes Scientist an Advocate of Different Species
Newspaper article by Deborah Donovan; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 3, 2005
...of black walnut provided protein and Omega 3 fatty acids - good for brain development - to the people who built the Cahokia mounds in southern Illinois. The civilization built structures bigger than Egypts pyramids, and the 14th century metropolis...
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Boys Basketball
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 26, 2008
...Eisenhower 8, Crane 8, Springfield Southeast 1, St. Francis 1, Cahokia 1. Class 2A School Pts...Meridian (4) 63 3. Mounds Meridian 39...
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Football
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 26, 2008
...Eisenhower 8. Crane 8. Springfield Southeast 1. St. Francis 1. Cahokia 1. School Pts...School Pts 1. Orion (2) 66 2. Macon Meridian (4) 63 3. Mounds Meridian 39 4. Salt Fork 36...
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encyclopedia articles on: Cahokia Mounds  - 6 results

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Cahokia Mounds
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CAHOKIA MOUNDS approximately 85 Native American earthworks in Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, SW Ill., near East St. Louis; largest group of mounds N of Mexico. Monks Mound, a rectangular...
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Cahokia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...has several buildings dating from the 18th cent. Parks College, part of St. Louis Univ., is there. Nearby are the Cahokia Mounds . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University...
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Collinsville
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1817, inc. 1872. Once a coal-mining center, the city now has food-products and clothing industries. Nearby are the Cahokia Mounds , the Native American earthworks. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the...
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Mound Builders
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1000), maize agriculture spread throughout the East. Populations expanded and became increasingly sedentary. At Cahokia Mounds (near East St. Louis, Ill.) the largest earthwork in North America was built, a temple mound measuring nearly 100...
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East Saint Louis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...East St. Louis was plagued by devastating floods until its first dike was completed in 1909. Just northeast are the Cahokia Mounds . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University...
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