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	Cahokia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cahokia was a Native American city located near Collinsville in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St.
		Cahokia is best known for large, man-made earthen structures, known popularly as mounds, the largest of which is Monk's Mound.
		Cahokia is one of the best-known sites of the Mississippian culture and the term "Cahokian" is sometimes used to describe the culture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cahokia (1045 words)

	Cahokia, Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name is a reference to Cahokia Mounds, a Native American city near Collinsville, Illinois.
		Cahokia is the home of the Cahokia Courthouse State Historic Site.
		Soon after that, the 105 Cahokia "heads of household" pledged loyalty to the Continental Congress of the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cahokia,_Illinois (768 words)

	Archaeological Sites
		For 500 years, Cahokia was the major center of a culture that, at its peak, stretched from Red Wing, Minnesota to Key Marco, Florida and across the southeast.
		The city of Cahokia is the focal point of what is known as the American Bottoms, the broad alluvial valley of the Mississippi River just south of the confluence of the Missouri, Illinois and Mississippi Rivers.
		Cahokia was a planned city with elaborate public buildings and perhaps elite residences at its core.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/sites/northamerica/cahokia.html (603 words)

	The Fall of Great Cahokia (The Anthropik Network) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Monk's Mound also commands a view that, while unspectacular now, was no doubt even more important than those vistas in its heyday: a vantage over the entire city of Cahokia, and particularly the 50 acre Grand Plaza that was the beating heart of the Mississippian culture.
		It was a ridge-top burial mound, and beneath it, archaeologists did not just find the remains of a single noble, nor even lavish grave goods, including 20,000 marine-shell disc beads laid in the shape of a falcon, marking this as the famous "Birdman" of Cahokia, and tying him into a universal shamanic tradition.
		The fact that the survivors of Cahokia's collapse erased all memory of that important site from their cultural memory certainly suggests that each of these groups were heir to one of the various political factions to emerge from Cahokia.
	anthropik.com /2005/10/the-fall-of-great-cahokia (1601 words)

	Cahokia Mounds Site Mound 72 Excavation
		Mound 72 was excavated as a direct result of a project called the Cahokia Mapping Project by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to classify and map the various mounds at Cahokia.
		Mound 72 is a ridge-top mound and one characteristic of these types of mounds at Cahokia is that 5 out of the 8 known examples are located at the outer most limits of the mound area.
		Primary mound 1 was built over the first large post pit discovered in the excavation and contained a burial of an important individual who was laid out on a bed of shell beads in the shape of a bird.
	lithiccastinglab.com /gallery-pages/2001augustmound72excavation1.htm (1599 words)

	Prehistoric Cultures at the Confluence and the Rise and Fall of Cahokia Mounds - William Iseminger
		During most of the Mississippian phases, communities outside of Cahokia were small and moundless, referred to as "homesteads," "farmsteads" or "hamlets." However, a number of villages of small to moderate size were scattered throughout the area, some with one or two mounds that were probably local centers.
		Cahokia may have been at its greatest during the Lohmann phase (A.D. but the subsequent Stirling phase (A.D. 1050-1150) was also a time of dense population and elaborate cultural complexity, and Cahokia rose to dominance as the largest Mississippian site in eastern North America.
		All mounds examined thus far show evidence of several stages of construction, perhaps commemorating calendric cycles, the deaths of leaders or ascent of new ones, or ritual reburial of the mound in a rite of purification.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/LewisClark2/TheBicentennial/Symposium2001/Papers/Iseminger_William.htm (3299 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Ancient Cahokia
		Cahokia was the largest city ever built north of Mexico before Columbus and boasted 120 earthen mounds.
		Still, Cahokia attracted copper from mines near Lake Superior; salt from nearby mines; shells from the Gulf of Mexico; chert, a flintlike rock, from quarries as far as Oklahoma, and mica, a sparkling mineral, from the Carolinas.
		Mounds often were the village centerpiece and have become their builders' signature across time.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/daily/march/12/cahokia.htm (2697 words)

	MYSTERIOUS WORLD: Spring 1999: Cahokia: Forgotten Jewel of the Midwest: Part I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This massive mound, named for the monastery that once graced its summit, sat at the center of the largest known city complex in North America, which is believed to have supported over 20,000 people at its peak.
		Cahokia in turn sat at the center of a massive network of village and lesser mound complexes, stretching from what is now Wisconsin (Aztalan) throughout the midwestern and southeastern United States.
		Cahokia is also a contender for an origin point for the Aztecs, but in either case, the extensive mound-building culture in North America and the similarity in building styles between North and Central American pyramidal structures makes it clear that there was some sort of cultural contact at some point.
	www.mysteriousworld.com /Journal/1999/Spring/Cahokia01 (2056 words)

	Ill. Cahokia Mounds receive state funding - Boston.com
		For years, administrators at Cahokia Mounds longed to acquire more property near the ruins of a prehistoric city, fearing that artifacts on the coveted private land could be forever lost to development.
		For years, Cahokia Mounds administrators longed to snach up more property near those ruins of the prehistoric but lacked the money, fearing the removal of more of the artifacts on private lands.
		Cahokia was designated a World Heritage Site by a United Nations agency in 1982, joining the likes of the Great Wall of China, Egypt's pyramids, the Taj Mahal, Grand Canyon and the Statue of Liberty.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/02/17/ill_cahokia_mounds_receive_state_funding (577 words)

	MYSTERIOUS WORLD: Summer 1999: Cahokia: Forgotten Jewel of the Midwest: Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The king lived at the summit of the main mound at Cahokia, Monk's Mound, where he was likely believed to be the incarnation of the Birdman — or at least his earthly representative.
		Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, administered by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, is just eight miles from downtown St. Louis near Collinsville, Illinois, off Interstates 55-70 and 255, and Illinois 111, on Collinsville road.
		Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site preserves the remains of the most sophisticated prehistoric Indian civilization north of Mexico, circa A.D. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982, Cahokia is noted for its important role in the prehistory of North America.
	www.mysteriousworld.com /Journal/1999/Summer/Cahokia02 (3058 words)

	Cahokia Mounds - The oldest archeaological site in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The name Cahokia is that of a unrelated tribe that was living in the area when the first French explorers arrived in the late 17th century.
		Three types of mounds were constructed, the most common of which wash a platform mound, thought to have been used as monumental structures for political or religious ceremonies and may have once been topped by large buildings.
		An estimated 22 million cubic feet of earth was used to build the mound between the years of 900 and 1,200 A.D. The mound was named for French monks who lived nearby in the early 1,800's as was most likely the site where the principal ruler lived, conducted ceremonies, and governed the city.
	www.bonus.com /contour/legends_america/http@@/www.legendsofamerica.com/IL-Cahokia.html (1044 words)

	MOUNDS
		However, it is suspected that four of the six ridge top mounds mainly had the function of boundary markers, which were placed at the corners of the large diamond shaped ceremonial central plaza area – at its heart being Monk’s Mound - marking each of the cardinal directions.
		Perhaps what is most remarkable about many mounds at Cahokia is Melvin Fowler's argument that their placement seems to have been planned according to the four cardinal directions (in particular the equinox sunrise and sunset) and specific celestial events, the winter and summer solstices.
		Mound 72, however, is the “only Cahokian burial site excavated with modern archaeological care” and “under it were found the remains of a tall man buried about the year 1050.
	www.bradley.edu /las/eng/lotm/Cahokia/MOUNDS.htm (1353 words)

	Effigy mound culture
		The Midwestern effigy mounds are some of the more fantastic earthworks from ancient times, and Wisconsin, we are proud to say, was at the center of the construction project.
		Cahokia was a northern outpost of the Mississippian culture that thrived further down the Mississippi.
		Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is in Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Mo. Cahokia was an outpost of Mississippian civilization further down the big river.
	whyfiles.org /135salv_arch/3.html (753 words)

	Cahokia Mounds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Cahokia proves that native people lived in the western lands long before the Americans arrived.
		Monks Mound was where the chief lived, not a burial mound.
		The Twin Mounds are known as Fox Mound and Roundtop Mound.
	www.eiu.edu /~lewclark/pbcahokia.html (212 words)

	Archaeological Sites
		The largest mound, called "Monks Mound", was named for French trapper/monks who lived nearby and gardened on the mound in the early 1800's.
		Monks Mound was situated in the middle of the city, at the north end of the Central Plaza.
		On one side of the mound was the creek where traders loaded and unloaded their goods and on the other three sides a heavy wooden palisade.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/sites/northamerica/camounds.html (757 words)

	Mississippi Mounds
		The Mississippian Culture constructed hundreds of temple, effigy, fortress, and observatory mounds from the flood loam of the Mississippi River and her tributaries.
		The mounds were built of rich humus in agricultural lowlands, and starting in the 19th century they were destroyed by farm fields, canals, roads, and pot-hunters.
		Mounds entombing burials and grave goods should be given full protection under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 (ARPA) and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
	www.sacredland.org /historical_sites_pages/miss_mounds.html (1475 words)

	Wired News: Indian Mounds Mystify Excavators
		Archeologists continue to comb what is now the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, looking for clues that will tell them what happened here -- why the city and its culture vanished and why the people who lived here built more than a hundred earthen mounds, many of which are still scattered across the countryside.
		Cahokia is not the historical name of this city; the current name comes from the native people who were living in the area when French explorers arrived in the early 1600s.
		Monks Mound, Cahokia's biggest mound, is a pyramid mound that rises 100 feet from its 14-acre base.
	www.wired.com /news/roadtrip/riverroad/0,2704,65170,00.html (822 words)

	CAHOKIA MOUNDS: ILLINOIS POWER SPOT?
		At the summit of the mound, are the buried remains of some sort of temple, further adding to the mystery of the site.
		It has been suggested that perhaps the Mound Builders abandoned the area because of overcrowding or contamination of the local water supply, while others have theorized that it may have been a breakdown of the civilization itself.
		CAHOKIA MOUNDS is located just outside of Collinsville, Illinois, a short distance off Interstates 55/70 and 255, along Route 40.
	www.prairieghosts.com /cahokia.html (936 words)

	The Infography about the Cahokia Mounds
		Cahokia and the Hinterlands: Middle Mississippian Cultures of the Midwest.
		Pauketat, Timothy R. The Archaeology of Downtown Cahokia: The Tract 15-A and Dunham Tract Excavations.
		Watson, Robert J. "Sacred Landscapes at Cahokia: Mound 72 and the Mound 72 Precinct." In: Mounds, Modoc, and Mesoamerica: Papers in Honor of Melvin L. Fowler, edited by Steven R. Ahler, Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers, Vol.
	www.infography.com /content/351566136978.html (1317 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Cahokia Mounds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		CAHOKIA MOUNDS [Cahokia Mounds] approximately 85 Native American earthworks in Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, SW Ill., near East St. Louis; largest group of mounds N of Mexico.
		Monks' Mound, a rectangular, flat-topped earthwork, 100 ft (30.5 m) high with a 17-acre (6.9-hectare) base, is named for Trappist monks who settled there in the early 19th cent.
		The people who constructed the mounds were village dwellers who lived in a fertile river-bottom area; their culture flourished from c.1300 to c.1700.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/CahokiaM1.asp (312 words)

	Cahokia Mounds Washington State Park Rock Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Wall trenches and postmolds belonging to the circular palisade bastion east of Monks Mound during 1977.
		Cahokia has the same grand scale and high degree of planning that can be recognized at Bronze Age cities such as Mari, Narwa, Urkish, and Ebla (all in Syria).
		Cahokia is remarkably larger and far more complex than the monumental sites associated with the chiefdom that governed the Hawaiian islands.
	users.stlcc.edu /mfuller/cahokia.html (811 words)

	Newsvine - The Rise and Fall of Cahokia
		Enormous man made mounds and the remnants of an ancient, powerful culture that vanished without a trace opens the door to one of the nation’s largest mysteries.
		As the attackers fought their way through waves of reinforcements and marched towards the city gates, the leaders of Cahokia knew that their only hope was to turn to a super weapon they had developed under the guidance of the “Great Spirits”.
		Using the mounds they had built as control towers, all of the spiritual leaders and citizens of Cahokia focused their psychic energy against the attackers.
	failedsuccess.newsvine.com /_news/2006/04/13/165821-the-rise-and-fall-of-cahokia (1050 words)

	Cahokia Mounds
		Monk's Mound is the center of a group of a hundred smaller mounds, and is believed to have once been the home or place of worship of a race which passed from existence and left no records.
		The one were the people who built the great mounds in that locality that have so long excited the wonder and interest of antiquarians; and the other, not in the category of mound-builders, distinguished by the peculiar mode of burying their dead in stone-lined cists.
		With the knowledge we have of Indian life, it is not to be supposed that the tenancy of that splendid territory by the two early tribes mentioned was contemporaneous; and, with the limited reliable data available, the question of priority in possession has always been one difficult to determine.
	www.iltrails.org /moundshx.htm (909 words)

	National Park Service's World Heritage Sites: Cahokia Mounds State Historical Site, Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Managed by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, in Collinsville, Illinois, is located on the Mississippi River floodplain, across from St. Louis, Missouri.
		In the late 1600s, the Cahokia Indians (of the Illinois confederacy) came to the area and it is from them that the site derives its name.
		Monks Mound, for example, covers 14 acres, rises 100 feet, and was topped by a massive 5,000 square-foot building another 50 feet high.
	www.cr.nps.gov /worldheritage/cahokia.htm (294 words)

	GORP - Cahokia Mounds Historic Site - Native American Rambles
		The Cahokia community was situated on the rich fl-earth banks of Cahokia Creek, the waterway that Native Americans of the Mississippian culture used to reach the Mississippi River and the chain of lakes and marshes in the fertile lowlands known as the American Bottom.
		Monks Mound, a 100-foot structure covering 14 acres at its base, is the largest human-made earthen mound in North America.
		Radiocarbon sampling by archaeologists suggests that it took 250 years to build Monks Mound, from A.D. 900 to 1150, and that it was built mainly with baskets of dirt (at least 22 million cubic feet of it) hauled on human backs.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/publishers/countryman/hik_stl2.htm (591 words)

	GORP - Cahokia Mounds, Part 2 - Native American Rambles
		The mound was real crowded when the more raunchy films were shown." The theater is remembered today by the presence of the Falcon Picnic Area, and by the white trail marker posts, formerly the drive-in's speaker stands.
		Resume your walk; pass Mound 41 — Moorehead Mound, named for Warren K. Moorehead, an archaeologist who dug here in the 1920s and was the ramrod who persuaded the Illinois legislature to approve the area as a state park.
		After Monks Mound, the path continues east through more open fields to a reproduction of the stockade wall that archaeologists believe was part of a larger, nearly two-mile-long wall encircling the central core of Cahokia.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/publishers/countryman/hik_stl5.htm (1185 words)

	Mighty Cahokia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Eight miles east of St. Louis, Cahokia was in its day the largest and most influential settlement north of Mexico.
		Some 120 earthen mounds supporting civic buildings and the residences of Cahokia's elite were spread over more than five square miles--perhaps six times as many earthen platforms as the great Mississippian site of Moundville, south of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
		Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site: View a map of the site and a description of each of the mounds, information for visitors, a calendar of events, and a bibliography of works about the mounds.
	www.he.net /~archaeol/9605/abstracts/cahokia.html (298 words)

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