Home > Places > United States and Canada > Miscellaneous U.S. Geography
Hide all research tools Print this article Link to this article
Link to this article

CloseClose

Create a link to this page

Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:

<a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Cahokia_Mounds.aspx" title="Facts and informations about Cahokia Mounds">Cahokia Mounds</a>

Add this article to Del.icio.usShare this article on FacebookBookmark this article on FurlShare this article on Ma.gnoliaSubmit this article to RedditGive this article a thumbs-up on StumbleUpon
Show all research tools

Research topic: Cahokia Mounds

Click to see an enlarged picture
Cahokia Mounds. (Image by Flickr user Drawings Of Light Paul, CC)

Related pictures

Click to see an enlarged picture
Click to see an enlarged picture
Click to see an enlarged picture
Rate these pictures

Cahokia Mounds

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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. ... 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... Read more
Cahokia
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...inc. 1927. The first permanent settlement in Illinois, Cahokia's name is derived from a local Native American group. The...established a mission in 1699 and a fur-trading post later. Cahokia was occupied by the British in 1765 and captured by the...College, part of St. Louis Univ., is there. Nearby are the ... Read more

Facts and information from other sites



Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

The Cahokia Mounds
Magazine article from: Plains Anthropologist; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; The Cahokia Mounds. By WARREN...occurred at Cahokia resulting in...stressing that the mounds were natural...the expanded Cahokia State Park...information about Cahokia for Plains researchers. The Cahokia Mounds" is strongly... 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 ; ...excavations at the Cahokia site by Joseph Caldwell and the Cahokia Mounds Archaeological Society...disuse, and reuse of mounds and other monumental...developmental history of the Cahokia site. Political...Like many other mounds of Cahokia, we have only a... Read more
Millennium Mounds 1,000 years after its birth, Cahokia Mounds
Newspaper article from: Courier-News (Elgin, IL); 12/19/1999; 700+ words ; Millennium Mounds 1,000 years after its birth, Cahokia Mounds civilization remains...abandoned. Now known as Cahokia Mounds, the site is located...people who built Cahokia and a network of similar but much smaller mounds throughout the southeast... Read more
Illinois Aims to Increase Prospects for Tourism at Cahokia Mounds.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 10/4/2002; 435 words ; ...Tribune Business News Oct. 4--Cahokia Mounds is a hidden tourism treasure...so special, Topinka said. The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is one of...000 Native Americans lived at Cahokia Mounds. But much of that history is unknown... Read more
CITY OF THE SUN RISES AGAIN AT CAHOKIA MOUNDS
Newspaper article from: Herald-News (Joliet, IL); 6/27/1999; 700+ words ; ...grass-covered mounds of earth at Cahokia Mounds State Historic...confuse things, Cahokia Mounds isn't even in the town of Cahokia -- that modest...sun rose over Cahokia starting about...nearly 400 years. Mounds popped up everywhere... Read more
Prime Prehistory in Illinois // Cahokia Mounds Site Displays Marvels of Vanished Civilization
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/21/1993; ; 624 words ; ...Louis has bragging rights to Cahokia Mounds, the largest prehistoric Indian...A.D. - for a panoramic view of Cahokia Mounds State Historic and World Heritage...the sun as a deity or spirit. Cahokia Mounds offers the scientific community... Read more
Artifacts could change theories on Cahokia Mounds
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 7/9/2001; ; 273 words ; ...cup unearthed at Cahokia Mounds in the 1950s might...city of the 1200s, Cahokia Mounds was the most important...believed about Cahokia," Brown said...and 1400 A.D., Cahokia easily was the...wooded plots with 68 mounds that range in height... Read more
Ruins Hide Ancient Secrets // Cahokia Mounds Are Giant Mystery
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/28/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...at more than 10,000 years old: Cahokia Mounds in Collinsville. The excavated remains of Cahokia Mounds is the only prehistoric Native...a deity or spirit. Not only is Cahokia Mounds one of the archeological wonders... Read more
Cahokia Mounds Log Theory Gaining Strength
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/25/1994; 382 words ; ...anthropologist says. The theory on how Cahokia Mounds was built isn't new, but Melvin...established a trading center in the Cahokia Mounds area about A.D. 900 that may have...Edwardsville who leads field trips to Cahokia Mounds, said Fowler's theory was reasonable... Read more
Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World
Magazine article from: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...future research on Cahokia will begin with...extensive complex of mounds and plazas in the...reconstruction of plazas and mounds, and other examples...human laborers. The Cahokians began the Grand...between plazas, mounds, figurines, and...explain the place of Cahokians in the ... Read more

Related research topics

Edit this list

Online videos

Cahokia Mounds
Add/Rate Videos

Free newspaper and magazine articles

Free Article Indians created first major urban centers.(North American Culture)(prehistoric settlement Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 4/1/2005
Free Article Cahokia: The Great Native American Metropolis. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Magazine article from: Michigan Historical Review; 9/22/2000
Free Article Visitors fly under media radar.
Magazine article from: St. Louis Journalism Review; 6/1/2003

For Students and teachers!

HighBeam Encyclopedia provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including:

Encyclopedia.com provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including: