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Book Synopsis Explorations Into Cahokia Archaeology by : Melvin Leo Fowler
Download or read book Explorations Into Cahokia Archaeology written by Melvin Leo Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cahokia Mounds by : William Iseminger
Download or read book Cahokia Mounds written by William Iseminger and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About one thousand years ago, a phenomenon occurred in a fertile tract of Mississippi River flood plain known today as the "American Bottom." This phenomenon came to be called Cahokia Mounds, America's first city. Interpreting the rich heritage of a site like Cahokia Mounds is a balancing act; the interpreter must speak as a scholar to the general public on behalf of an entirely different civilization. Since even those three groups are splintered into myriad dialects of perspective, sometimes it is hard to know what language to use. But William Iseminger's work at the site has given him nearly four decades of practice in Cahokia Conversation 101, and he tells the story of the place and its ancient culture (as well as its place in contemporary culture) with the clarity and confidence of a native speaker.
Book Synopsis The Cahokia Atlas by : Melvin Leo Fowler
Download or read book The Cahokia Atlas written by Melvin Leo Fowler and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cahokia Mounds by : Frank Collins Baker
Download or read book The Cahokia Mounds written by Frank Collins Baker and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Archaeological Phases at Cahokia by : Melvin Leo Fowler
Download or read book Archaeological Phases at Cahokia written by Melvin Leo Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cahokia, the Great Native American Metropolis by : Biloine W. Young
Download or read book Cahokia, the Great Native American Metropolis written by Biloine W. Young and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Perspectives in Cahokia Archaeology by :
Download or read book Perspectives in Cahokia Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cahokia Archaeology by : Robert J. Salzer
Download or read book Cahokia Archaeology written by Robert J. Salzer and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Perspectives in Cahokia Archaeology by : Illinois Archaeological Survey
Download or read book Perspectives in Cahokia Archaeology written by Illinois Archaeological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cahokia written by Timothy R. Pauketat and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Cahokia written by Sally A. Kitt Chappell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-02-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Temples for Cahokia Lords by : Timothy R. Pauketat
Download or read book Temples for Cahokia Lords written by Timothy R. Pauketat and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Perspectives on Cahokia by : James B. Stoltman
Download or read book New Perspectives on Cahokia written by James B. Stoltman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cahokia and the Hinterlands by : Thomas E. Emerson
Download or read book Cahokia and the Hinterlands written by Thomas E. Emerson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Ancient Cahokia and the Mississippians by : Timothy R. Pauketat
Download or read book Ancient Cahokia and the Mississippians written by Timothy R. Pauketat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a wealth of archaeological evidence, this book outlines the development of Mississippian civilization.
Book Synopsis Cahokia Mounds by : Timothy R. Pauketat
Download or read book Cahokia Mounds written by Timothy R. Pauketat and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Coming Together written by Attila Gyucha and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how urbanization first emerged in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East. The pursuit for universally applicable definitions of the terms urban and city has frequently distracted scholars from scrutinizing processes of how ancient nucleated settlements evolved and developed. Based on the premise that similar social dynamics to a great extent governed nucleation trajectories throughout human history, Coming Together focuses on both prehistoric aggregated and early urban settlements. Drawing from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how nucleation unfolded in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East. The major themes of the volume are nucleations origins, pathways to sustainability, and the transformative role of these sites in sociopolitical and cultural change.