The Cahokia Mounds / Warren K. Moorehead; edited and with an introduction by John E. Kelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King), 1866-1939.

Contributor:

Kelly, John Edward.

Series:

Classics in southeastern archaeology.

Classics in southeastern archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historic sites--Illinois.

Historic sites.

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (459 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication This edition of Moorehead's excavations at Cahokia provides a comprehensive collection of Moorehead's investigations of the nation's largest prehistoric mound center. Covering almost fourteen square kilometers in Illinois, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is the largest prehistoric mound center in North America and has been designated a World Heritage Site by the United Nations. Built between A.D. 1050 and 1350, Cahokia originally contained the remains of over 100 earthen mounds that were used as places for Native A

Contents:

Contents; Figures and Plates; Acknowledgments; Note on This Edition; Introduction; The Cahokia Mounds: A Preliminary Paper (1922); The Cahokia Mounds: Part I, A Report of Progress and Part II, Some Geological Aspects (1923); The Cahokia Mounds (1929); Plates; Index

Notes:

"This edition reproduces the 1922, 1923, and 1929 University of Illinois Bulletins on the Cahokia Mounds by Warren K. Moorehead, without the bibliographies from the 1922 and 1923 volumes".

Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-368) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8414-6

0-585-34982-7

OCLC:

650060113