Cahokia in context : hegemony and diaspora / edited by Charles H. McNutt and Ryan M. Parish.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McNutt, Charles H., editor.

Parish, Ryan M., editor.

Series:

Ripley P. Bullen series

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mississippian culture.

Cahokia (Ill.)--History.

Cahokia (Ill.).

Mississippian culture--Illinois--Cahokia.

Mississippian culture--Illinois--Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park.

Illinois--Cahokia.

Illinois--Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 501 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2020]

Summary:

This volume highlights the nucleation of St. Louis's ancient indigenous population into a place we refer to as Cahokia Mounds. This allows us to address not only the broader context of Cahokia's creation as an urban center but also the rapid nature of change throughout its history.

Contents:

Introduction / Ryan M. Parish and Charles H. McNutt

Heartland: the American bottom and Lower Ohio Valley

In the beginning: contextualizing Cahokia's emergence / John E. Kelly and James A. Brown

Implications of the religious foundations of Cahokia / Susan M. Alt

Tracking Cahokians through material culture / Steven L. Boles

Kincaid Mounds and the Cahokian decline / Tamira K. Brennan and Corin C.O. Pursell

The North: Upper Mississippi Valley

Aztalan and the Cahokia's northern hinterland / John D. Richards

Cahokia and the Northwest Quarter / Dale R. Henning and Ronald C. Schirmer

The West: Middle Mississippi Valley

Cahokia connections in northeast Arkansas / C. Andrew Buchner and Eric S. Albertson

Possible Cahokian contacts in eastern and southeastern Arkansas / Marvin D. Jeter, Robert J. Scott, Jr. and John H. House

Interactions between the Caddo and the Cahokia regions / Jeffrey S. Girard

Cahokian exports to Spiro / David H. Dye

The Mississippian period in western Tennessee / Andrew M. Mickelson

Carson and Cahokia / Jay K. Johnson and John M. Connaway

Mississippian origins as viewed from the Shiloh Mound Group, western Tennessee / David G. Anderson, Thaddeus G. Bissett, and John E. Cornelison, Jr

Cahokia-Moundville interaction: an update / Vernon James Knight

Cahokian influence in the Nashville Basin / Robert V. Sharp, Kevin E. Smith, and David H. Dye

Cahokian diaspora, Etowah, and the South Appalachian Mississippian / Adam King

The coast: the Lower Mississippi Valley and Gulf

Vestiges of the Braden Corridor: from Cahokia to Lake Jackson / J. Grant Stauffer

The Cahokia connection at the Lake Providence Mounds, Louisiana / Richard A. Weinstein and Douglas C. Wells

Conclusions / Charles H. McNutt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781683400820

1683400828

OCLC:

1054368657