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A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication This edition of Moorehead's excavations at Cahokia provides a comprehensive collection of Moorehead's investigations of the nation's largest prehistoric mound center. Covering almost fourteen square kilometers in Illinois, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is the largest prehistoric mound center in North America and has been designated a World Heritage Site by the United Nations. Built between A.D. 1050 and 1350, Cahokia originally contained the remains of over 100 earthen mounds that were used as places for Native A

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.) --- Cahokia Mounds (Ill.) --- Cahokia Site (East Saint Louis, Ill.) --- Illinois --- Antiquities --- Historic sites

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Climate change is today’s news, but it isn’t a new phenomenon. Centuries-long cycles of heating and cooling are well documented for Europe and the North Atlantic. These variations in climate, including the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), AD 900 to 1300, and the early centuries of the Little Ice Age (LIA), AD 1300 to 1600, had a substantial impact on the cultural history of Europe. In this pathfinding volume, William C. Foster marshals extensive evidence that the heating and cooling of the MWP and LIA also occurred in North America and significantly affected the cultural history of Native peoples of the American Southwest, Southern Plains, and Southeast. Correlating climate change data with studies of archaeological sites across the Southwest, Southern Plains, and Southeast, Foster presents the first comprehensive overview of how Native American societies responded to climate variations over seven centuries. He describes how, as in Europe, the MWP ushered in a cultural renaissance, during which population levels surged and Native peoples substantially intensified agriculture, constructed monumental architecture, and produced sophisticated works of art. Foster follows the rise of three dominant cultural centers—Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, Cahokia on the middle Mississippi River, and Casas Grandes in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico—that reached population levels comparable to those of London and Paris. Then he shows how the LIA reversed the gains of the MWP as population levels and agricultural production sharply declined; Chaco Canyon, Cahokia, and Casas Grandes collapsed; and dozens of smaller villages also collapsed or became fortresses.

Casas Grandes culture --- Chaco culture --- Indians of Mexico --- Indigenous peoples --- Mississippian culture --- Ecology --- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)

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This ambitious book provides a theoretical explanation of how prehistoric Cahokia became a stratified society, and ultimately the pinnacle of Native American cultural achievement north of Mexico. Considering Cahokia in terms of class struggle, Pauketat claims that the political consolidation in this region of the Mississippi Valley happened quite suddenly, around A.D. 1000, after which the lords of Cahokia innovated strategies to preserve their power and ultimately emerged as divine chiefs. The new ideas and new data in this volume will invigorate the debate surrounding one of the mo

Chiefdoms. --- Mississippian culture. --- Chieftaincies --- Chieftainships --- Political anthropology --- Temple Mound culture --- Indians of North America --- Mound-builders --- Antiquities --- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.) --- Cahokia Mounds (Ill.) --- Cahokia Site (East Saint Louis, Ill.) --- Illinois

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Mississippian culture --- Cults --- Indians of North America --- Culture du Missisippi --- Cultes --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Rites et cérémonies --- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.) --- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (III.) --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Rites et cérémonies --- Antiquités

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Mississippian culture --- Indians of North America --- Archaeology and religion. --- Archaeology --- Religion and archaeology --- Religion --- Antiquities. --- Religion. --- Religion and mythology --- Religious aspects --- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.) --- American Bottom (Ill.) --- Cahokia Mounds (Ill.) --- Cahokia Site (East Saint Louis, Ill.) --- Illinois --- Antiquities