Cahokia Mounds
Author: William R. Iseminger
Publisher: Landmarks
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781596297340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescription of archaeological site known as the Cahokia Mounds in western Illinois.
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Author: William R. Iseminger
Publisher: Landmarks
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781596297340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescription of archaeological site known as the Cahokia Mounds in western Illinois.
Author: Warren King Moorehead
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 146
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alja Robinson Crook
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 26
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Timothy R. Pauketat
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-07-27
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0143117475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization located in modern day Illinois near St. Louis While Mayan and Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relatively few people are familiar with the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico-a site that expert Timothy Pauketat brings vividly to life in this groundbreaking book. Almost a thousand years ago, a city flourished along the Mississippi River near what is now St. Louis. Built around a sprawling central plaza and known as Cahokia, the site has drawn the attention of generations of archaeologists, whose work produced evidence of complex celestial timepieces, feasts big enough to feed thousands, and disturbing signs of human sacrifice. Drawing on these fascinating finds, Cahokia presents a lively and astonishing narrative of prehistoric America.
Author: Gayle J. Fritz
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: 2019-01-15
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0817320059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative and thoroughly accessible overview offarming and food practices at Cahokia Agriculture is rightly emphasized as the center of the economy in most studies of Cahokian society, but the focus is often predominantly on corn. This farming economy is typically framed in terms of ruling elites living in mound centers who demanded tribute and a mass surplus to be hoarded or distributed as they saw fit. Farmers are cast as commoners who grew enough surplus corn to provide for the elites. Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland presents evidence to demonstrate that the emphasis on corn has created a distorted picture of Cahokia’s agricultural practices. Farming at Cahokia was biologically diverse and, as such, less prone to risk than was maize-dominated agriculture. Gayle J. Fritz shows that the division between the so-called elites and commoners simplifies and misrepresents the statuses of farmers—a workforce consisting of adult women and their daughters who belonged to kin groups crosscutting all levels of the Cahokian social order. Many farmers had considerable influence and decision-making authority, and they were valued for their economic contributions, their skills, and their expertise in all matters relating to soils and crops. Fritz examines the possible roles played by farmers in the processes of producing and preparing food and in maintaining cosmological balance. This highly accessible narrative by an internationally known paleoethnobotanist highlights the biologically diverse agricultural system by focusing on plants, such as erect knotweed, chenopod, and maygrass, which were domesticated in the midcontinent and grown by generations of farmers before Cahokia Mounds grew to be the largest Native American population center north of Mexico. Fritz also looks at traditional farming systems to apply strategies that would be helpful to modern agriculture, including reviving wild and weedy descendants of these lost crops for redomestication. With a wealth of detail on specific sites, traditional foods, artifacts such as famous figurines, and color photos of significant plants, Feeding Cahokia will satisfy both scholars and interested readers.
Author: Warren King Moorehead
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas E. Emerson
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9781930487550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Iseminger
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2010-03-03
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1614230056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbout 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.
Author: Melvin Leo Fowler
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780964488137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Warren King Moorehead
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 432
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