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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Cahokia , village (1990 pop. 17,550), St. Clair co., SW Ill., a residential suburb of East St. Louis, on the Mississippi River; inc. 1927. The first permanent settlement in Illinois, Cahokia's name is derived from a local Native American group. The French established a mission in 1699 and a fur-trading post later. Cahokia was occupied by the British in 1765 and captured by the Americans under George Rogers Clark in 1778. It has several buildings dating from the 18th cent. Parks College, part of St. Louis Univ., is there. Nearby are the Cahokia Mounds . ... Read more

Cahokia and its Woodhenge
Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained Cahokia and its Woodhenge Cahokia Mounds State Historical Site in Illinois is the site of the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico. The city covered six square miles of settlement and may have been inhabited by as many as 20,000... Read more

Cahokia
Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names Cahokia, Illinois/USA Founded in 1699 and named after a Native American tribe whose name perhaps meant ‘Wild Geese’. Read more

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	Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World Magazine article from: Plains Anthropologist; 8/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World. Edited...55.00 (cloth, ISBN 0-8032-3708-1). The news and views on Cahokia and American Bottom archaeology have changed considerably since Perspectives in Cahokia Archaeology (Illinois Archaeological Survey, 1975) was... Read more
	Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos Magazine article from: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos. By Sally A. Kitt Chappell. (Chicago...archaeological site of late prehistoric North America, Cahokia. As such it is a novel, sometimes odd, blend of perspectives...author has given us a history of the place we now call Cahokia. This is a history (she calls it a deep time ... Read more
	An introduction to Cahokia 2002: Diversity, complexity, and history Magazine article from: Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, MCJA; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ABSTRACT Cahokia research has advanced rapidly in the last two decades. Our understanding of Cahokia has been promoted by the acquisition of new...theoretical paradigms. These advances have allowed Cahokia researchers to reexamine the scale of the... Read more
	The Cahokia Mounds Magazine article from: Plains Anthropologist; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; The Cahokia Mounds. By WARREN K. MOOREHEAD, edited...Moorehead's reports on his work at the Cahokia site. This edition contains three original...that provides a historical overview of Cahokia and American Bottom archaeology and a thorough... Read more
	Ancient Cahokia and the Mississippians Magazine article from: Southeastern Archaeology; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; Ancient Cahokia and the Mississippians. TIMOTHY R. PAUKETAT...and compelling summary of the history of Cahokia. As expected, it draws extensively on...this book is a summary of the history of Cahokia according to the Praxis Camp. What I particularly... Read more
	Identities, traditions, and diversity in Cahokia's uplands Magazine article from: Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, MCJA; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...complex. The sites lie 15-40 km southeast of Cahokia. Their excavation has greatly increased...and events at the time of the rise of Cahokia. These sites exhibit much more variability...similarities to settlements in and around Cahokia than previous models of Mississippi anization... Read more
	CITY OF THE SUN RISES AGAIN AT CAHOKIA MOUNDS Newspaper article from: Herald-News (Joliet, IL); 6/27/1999; 700+ words ; Cahokia, Illinois This was a beautiful city, a magnificent city, a mysterious city. This was Cahokia -- the City of the Sun. You'd never know it nowadays. It...their name. Today, the grass-covered mounds of earth at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, popping up from the flat Mississippi... Read more
	CAHOKIA'S MOUND 31: A SHORT-TERM CONSTRUCTION AT A LONG-TERM SITE Magazine article from: Southeastern Archaeology; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; In 1959, limited excavations at the Cahokia site by Joseph Caldwell and the Cahokia Mounds Archaeological Society resulted in the only...great deal of mound construction was undertaken at Cahokia. The mound fell into disuse during the late Stirling... Read more
	A fourth-generation synthesis of Cahokia and Mississippianization Magazine article from: Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, MCJA; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...have long been interested in the details of how Cahokia was built and how Cahokian community and polity were forged. Recent analyses...relate these to a "fourth-generation" synthesis of Cahokia founded on the recognition of a significant region-wi... Read more
	Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power Magazine article from: Plains Anthropologist; 5/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power. By THOMAS E. EMERSON. University...varying influence of Mississippian culture as expressed at Cahokia on the material culture and belief systems of early Plains Village farmers. The resurgence of research at the Cahokia site and the American Bottom sparked by the ... Read more

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