Cahokia and the Hinterlands
Subtitle: Middle Mississippian Cultures of the Midwest
Contributors: Thomas E Emerson (Editor); R Barry Lewis (Editor)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: February 1, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780252017056
Subjects: North American archaeology; Native American Archaeology; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; The Americas; Anthropology - Cultural; Native American Studies; United States - State & Local; Social Science / Archaeology; American Bottom; Antiquities; Cahokia Mounds State Historic; Illinois; Middle West; Mississippian culture
First sentence: The first useful description of the Cahokia archaeological site does not come from the pen of Jacques Marquette or any other of the early French or British chroniclers in the Illinois country but is the brief account entered in a field notebook by a deputy surveyor named Messinger in 1808.