Cahokia, the great Native American metropolis / Biloine Whiting Young and Melvin L. Fowler

Object Details

Contents: The making of a Cahokia archaeologist -- The Illinois archaeological survey and the prehistory of Cahokia -- Early investigations 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

2000

Place: Illinois; American Bottom; Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.); American Bottom (Ill.)

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic: Mississippian culture; Urban Indians; Excavations (Archaeology)--History; Antiquities