| Description |
xviii, 218 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-206) and index. |
| Contents |
Cahokia in its natural setting : a special place within a special place -- Human beings enter the Americas : Paleo-Indians, Archaic and Woodland groups, and emergent Mississippians -- Cahokia : cosmic landscape architecture -- French explorers, trappers, priests, and monks -- Nineteenth-century turmoil -- Early twentieth-century Cahokia : setting the state -- Modern Cahokia : a critical mass at a critical time. |
| Subject |
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)
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Mississippian culture.
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Indians of North America -- Illinois -- Antiquities.
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| ISBN |
0226101363 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0226101371 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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