Cahokia
Subtitle: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World (American Indian Lives)
Contributors: Timothy R. Pauketat (Editor); Thomas E. Emerson (Editor)
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: April 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780803237087
Subjects: History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Native Americans - Plains; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Native American; Sociology; USA; Illinois; Anthropology - General; United States - State & Local - General; Social Science / General; Politics and government; American Bottom; Cahokia Mounds State Historic; Chiefdoms; Indians of North America; Mississippian culture
Description: 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 accomplishment of Cahokia. The nine contributors explore a wide range of topics - religion, trade, the nature of local and regional ideologies, social organization, subsistence, mound construction, and the longstanding question of Cahokia's relationship to later Mississippian chiefdoms across the Southeast.