Cahokia : America's lost metropolis / by Liz Gray.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Gray, Liz.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.).

Genre:

Documentary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (50 min.)

Place of Publication:

London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1998.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

Cahokia began with a big-bang and by a big-bang I mean that it was explosive. People moved to Cahokia within a very short period of time, in matter of years, a few years possibly. It's a beginning of a ... of a new world in a sense, it's a Cahokian world. The new world was a great city of earth mounds. As early as 1050 AD , downtown Cahokia contained about a 120 mounds, covering six square miles. Clusters of Mounds, the suburbs stretched over both sides of the Mississippi , now covered by parts of present days St. Louis. Until this was lost under highways and office blocks, St. Louis was once known as Mound City. Only a few paintings and photographs have survived. The biggest mound here was destroyed just over a 100 years ago.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 24, 2011).

Previously published as DVD.

OCLC:

708216802