Cahokia, the great Native American metropolis
By: Biloine Whiting Young and Melvin L. Fowler.
Contributors: Fowler, Melvin L. 1924-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Mississippian culture -- Illinois -- American Bottom.; Indians of North America -- Urban residence -- Illinois -- American Bottom.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Illinois -- American Bottom -- History.; Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.); American Bottom (Ill.) -- Antiquities.
Other titles: Cahokia
Table of contents: title: The making of a Cahokia archaeologist; title: The Illinois Archaeological Survey and the prehistory of Cahokia; title: Early investigation into the Great Mounds; title: The destruction of the Powell and Murdock Mounds; title: The Hopewellian Ceramic Conference and digging the Modoc rock shelter; title: Chaos and confusion at Cahokia; title: The 1960s highway salvage program begins; title: The emerging picture of a complex Cahokia; title: The excavation of mound 72; title: Excavations on Monks Mound; title: New sequential ceramic phase defined; title: The second highway salvage project; title: The struggle to build a new Cahokia museum; title: The slumping of Monks Mound and discovery of the Grand Plaza; title: Woodhenges revisited; title: The physical landscape of Cahokia; title: The spiritual landscape of Cahokia; title: Cahokia's engineers and builders; title: The outposts of Cahokia; title: The abandonment of Cahokia; title: Cahokia's place in the pre-conquest world.