page_title: Warren K. Moorehead
section_title: Cahokia and Illinois
hierarchical_section_title: Warren K. Moorehead / Cahokia and Illinois
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Künstlerische Darstellung von Cahokia in Illinois, der größten Siedlung der Mississippi-Kultur. Sie zeigt den großen, sogenannten Mönchshügel im Zentrum und den Zentralen Platz südlich davon. Der zentrale Bezirk ist von einer Palisade umfasst. Drei weitere Plätze liegen westlich, nördlich und östlich des Mönchshügels. Links unten im Bild ist der Woodhenge-Kreis aus Zedernholzpfählen zu sehen. English: Artists conception of the Mississippian culture Cahokia Mounds Site in Illinois. The illustration shows the large Monks Mound at the center of the site with the Grand Plaza to its south. This central precinct is encircled by a palisade. Three other plazas surround Monks Mound to the west, north and east. To the west of the western plaza is the Woodhenge circle of cedar posts.
context_page_description: Warren King Moorehead was known in his time as the 'Dean of American archaeology'; born in Siena, Italy to missionary parents on March 10, 1866, he died on January 5, 1939 at the age of 72, and is buried in his hometown of Xenia, Ohio.
  Moorehead is credited with excavating more ancient earthworks than all archaeologists before and after him. Due to Moorehead's primary focus on artifact recovery in his early career, his often careless documentation of excavated sites, and the fact that he lost many of his own important field notes, Moorehead is often remembered as a destructive force among modern archaeologists. That said, Moorehead was influential in the preservation of some historical sites such as Fort Ancient.
context_section_description: Moorehead worked at the Cahokia site between 1921-1927. Cahokia is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. He was instrumental in getting the State of Illinois to buy a portion of the Cahokia site in order to create a state park.  From 1927 to 1939 he worked on sites in the Illinois River Valley. Major collections from Cahokia are at the Illinois State Museum and the University of Illinois ().
caption: Cahokia, Mississippian culture site in Illinois
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