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Cahokia by Biloine Whiting Young, Melvin L. Fowler (1999, Paperback) 
Cahokia by Biloine Whiting Young, Melvin L. Fowler (1999, Paperback)
Author: Biloine Whiting Young, Melvin L. Fowler
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
Publication Date: 1999-12-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0252068211
ISBN-13: 9780252068218
Product ID: EPID261913
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Publication Date:1999-12-01

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Length:366 pages
Height:9.3 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:19.2 oz

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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. Cahokia, a precisely planned community with a fortified central city and surrounding suburbs, was designed as a reflection of the Cahokian's concept of the cosmos. At its height the metropolis had twenty thousand inhabitants in the city center with another ten thousand in the outskirts. 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. 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.

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