Cahokia, the great Native American metropolis
Five centuries before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, indigenous North Americans had already built Cahokia, a vast urban center on the banks of the Mississippi River where East St Louis is today. This book tells the story of a struggle to protect the site from the encroachment of interstate highways and urban sprawl.
History
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The making of a Cahokia archaeologist
The Illinois archaeological survey and the prehistory of Cahokia
Early investigation 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
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