Cahokia

Author : Timothy R. Pauketat
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101105177

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Cahokia by Timothy R. Pauketat Pdf

The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization located in modern day Illinois near St. Louis While Mayan and Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relatively few people are familiar with the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico-a site that expert Timothy Pauketat brings vividly to life in this groundbreaking book. Almost a thousand years ago, a city flourished along the Mississippi River near what is now St. Louis. Built around a sprawling central plaza and known as Cahokia, the site has drawn the attention of generations of archaeologists, whose work produced evidence of complex celestial timepieces, feasts big enough to feed thousands, and disturbing signs of human sacrifice. Drawing on these fascinating finds, Cahokia presents a lively and astonishing narrative of prehistoric America.

Author : Timothy R. Pauketat
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143117476

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Cahokia by Timothy R. Pauketat Pdf

The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization located in modern day Illinois near St. Louis While Mayan and Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relatively few people are familiar with the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico-a site that expert Timothy Pauketat brings vividly to life in this groundbreaking book. Almost a thousand years ago, a city flourished along the Mississippi River near what is now St. Louis. Built around a sprawling central plaza and known as Cahokia, the site has drawn the attention of generations of archaeologists, whose work produced evidence of complex celestial timepieces, feasts big enough to feed thousands, and disturbing signs of human sacrifice. Drawing on these fascinating finds, Cahokia presents a lively and astonishing narrative of prehistoric America.

Author : Biloine W. Young,Melvin Leo Fowler
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0252068211

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Cahokia, the Great Native American Metropolis by Biloine W. Young,Melvin Leo Fowler Pdf

Five centuries before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, indigenous North Americans had already built a vast urban center on the banks of the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. This is the story of North America's largest archaeological site, told through the lives, personalities, and conflicts of the men and women who excavated and studied it. At its height the metropolis of Cahokia had twenty thousand inhabitants in the city center with another ten thousand in the outskirts. Cahokia was a precisely planned community with a fortified central city and surrounding suburbs. Its entire plan reflected the Cahokian's concept of the cosmos. Its centerpiece, Monk's Mound, ten stories tall, is the largest pre-Columbian structure in North America, with a base circumference larger than that of either the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt or the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan in Mexico. Nineteenth-century observers maintained that the mounds, too sophisticated for primitive Native American cultures, had to have been created by a superior, non-Indian race, perhaps even by survivors of the lost continent of Atlantis. Melvin Fowler, the "dean" of Cahokia archaeologists, and Biloine Whiting Young tell an engrossing story of the struggle to protect the site from the encroachment of interstate highways and urban sprawl. Now identified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and protected by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Cahokia serves as a reminder that the indigenous North Americans had a past of complexity and great achievement.

Author : Timothy R. Pauketat,Thomas E. Emerson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803287658

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Cahokia by Timothy R. Pauketat,Thomas E. Emerson Pdf

About one thousand years ago, Native Americans built hundreds of earthen platform mounds, plazas, residential areas, and other types of monuments in the vicinity of present-day St. Louis. This sprawling complex, known to archaeologists as Cahokia, was the dominant cultural, ceremonial, and trade center north of Mexico for centuries. This stimulating collection of essays casts new light on the remarkable accomplishments of Cahokia.

Author : Melvin Leo Fowler
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0964488132

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The Cahokia Atlas by Melvin Leo Fowler Pdf

Author : Timothy R. Pauketat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521520665

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Ancient Cahokia and the Mississippians by Timothy R. Pauketat Pdf

Using a wealth of archaeological evidence, this book outlines the development of Mississippian civilization.

Author : Thomas E. Emerson,R. Barry Lewis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0252068785

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Cahokia and the Hinterlands by Thomas E. Emerson,R. Barry Lewis Pdf

Covering topics as diverse as economic modeling, craft specialization, settlement patterns, agricultural and subsistence systems, and the development of social ranking, Cahokia and the Hinterlands explores cultural interactions among Cahokians and the inhabitants of other population centers, including Orensdorf and the Dickson Mounds in Illinois and Aztalan in Wisconsin, as well as sites in Minnesota, Iowa, and at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Proposing sophisticated and innovative models for the growth, development, and decline of Mississippian culture at Cahokia and elsewhere, this volume also provides insight into the rise of chiefdoms and stratified societies and the development of trade throughout the world.

Author : Sally A. Kitt Chappell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226101363

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Cahokia by Sally A. Kitt Chappell Pdf

At the turn of the last millennium, a powerful Native American civilization emerged and flourished in the American Midwest. By A.D. 1050 the population of its capital city, Cahokia, was larger than that of London. Without the use of the wheel, beasts of burden, or metallurgy, its technology was of the Stone Age, yet its culture fostered widespread commerce, refined artistic expression, and monumental architecture. The model for this urbane world was nothing less than the cosmos itself. The climax of their ritual center was a four-tiered pyramid covering fourteen acre rising a hundred feet into the sky—the tallest structure in the United States until 1867. This beautifully illustrated book traces the history of this six-square-mile area in the central Mississippi Valley from the Big Bang to the present. Chappell seeks to answer fundamental questions about this unique, yet still relatively unknown space, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982. How did this swampy land become so amenable to human life? Who were the remarkable people who lived here before the Europeans came? Why did the whole civilization disappear so rapidly? What became of the land in the centuries after the Mississippians abandoned it? And finally, what can we learn about ourselves as we look into the changing meaning of Cahokia through the ages? To explore these questions, Chappell probes a wide range of sources, including the work of astronomers, geographers, geologists, anthropologists, and archaeologists. Archival photographs and newspaper accounts, as well as interviews with those who work at the site and Native Americans on their annual pilgrimage to the site, bring the story up to the present. Tying together these many threads, Chappell weaves a rich tale of how different people conferred their values on the same piece of land and how the transformed landscape, in turn, inspired different values in them-cultural, spiritual, agricultural, economic, and humanistic.

Author : Warren King Moorehead
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817310103

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The Cahokia Mounds by Warren King Moorehead Pdf

Provides a comprehensive collection of Moorehead's investigations of the nation's largest prehistoric mound center

Author : Thomas E. Emerson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817308889

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Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power by Thomas E. Emerson Pdf

The consolidation of this symbolism into a rural cult marks the expropriation of the cosmos as part of the increasing power of the Cahokian rulers.

Author : Timothy R. Pauketat,Nancy Stone Bernard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195158106

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Cahokia Mounds by Timothy R. Pauketat,Nancy Stone Bernard Pdf

Just a few miles west of Collinsville, Illinois lies the remains of the most sophisticated prehistoric native civilizations north of Mexico. Cahokia Mounds explores the history behind this buried American city inhabited from about AD 700 to 1400, that was almost lost in metropolitan expansions of the 1960s and 1970s, but later became one of the best understood archeological sites in North America.

Author : Gayle J. Fritz
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780817320058

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Feeding Cahokia by Gayle J. Fritz Pdf

An authoritative and thoroughly accessible overview offarming and food practices at Cahokia Agriculture is rightly emphasized as the center of the economy in most studies of Cahokian society, but the focus is often predominantly on corn. This farming economy is typically framed in terms of ruling elites living in mound centers who demanded tribute and a mass surplus to be hoarded or distributed as they saw fit. Farmers are cast as commoners who grew enough surplus corn to provide for the elites. Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland presents evidence to demonstrate that the emphasis on corn has created a distorted picture of Cahokia’s agricultural practices. Farming at Cahokia was biologically diverse and, as such, less prone to risk than was maize-dominated agriculture. Gayle J. Fritz shows that the division between the so-called elites and commoners simplifies and misrepresents the statuses of farmers—a workforce consisting of adult women and their daughters who belonged to kin groups crosscutting all levels of the Cahokian social order. Many farmers had considerable influence and decision-making authority, and they were valued for their economic contributions, their skills, and their expertise in all matters relating to soils and crops. Fritz examines the possible roles played by farmers in the processes of producing and preparing food and in maintaining cosmological balance. This highly accessible narrative by an internationally known paleoethnobotanist highlights the biologically diverse agricultural system by focusing on plants, such as erect knotweed, chenopod, and maygrass, which were domesticated in the midcontinent and grown by generations of farmers before Cahokia Mounds grew to be the largest Native American population center north of Mexico. Fritz also looks at traditional farming systems to apply strategies that would be helpful to modern agriculture, including reviving wild and weedy descendants of these lost crops for redomestication. With a wealth of detail on specific sites, traditional foods, artifacts such as famous figurines, and color photos of significant plants, Feeding Cahokia will satisfy both scholars and interested readers.

Author : William R. Iseminger
Publisher : Landmarks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1596297344

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Cahokia Mounds by William R. Iseminger Pdf

Description of archaeological site known as the Cahokia Mounds in western Illinois.

Author : Albert Lorenz,Joy Schleh
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0810950472

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Journey to Cahokia by Albert Lorenz,Joy Schleh Pdf

Published in association with The Art Institute of Chicago, this title relates the tale of a young Native American who is chosen to make a trading journey from his small village to the great mound city of Cahokia that existed in America's midwest more than 600 years ago. Full color.

Author : A. Martin Byers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)
ISBN : 0813045266

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Cahokia by A. Martin Byers Pdf

Cahokia is located in the northern expanse of American Bottom the largest of the Mississippian flood plains, and opposite St Louis, Missouri. This book argues that Cahokia must be given a religious characterization as a world renewal cult centre.