Cahokia mounds / Timothy R. Pauketat and Nancy Stone Bernard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pauketat, Timothy R.

Contributor:

Bernard, Nancy S. (Nancy Stone)

Series:

Digging for the Past

Digging for the past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mississippian culture--Illinois--American Bottom--Juvenile literature.

Mississippian culture.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Illinois--American Bottom--Juvenile literature.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Earthworks (Archaeology)--Illinois--American Bottom--Juvenile literature.

Earthworks (Archaeology).

Indians of North America.

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)--Juvenile literature.

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.).

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)--Antiquities--Juvenile literature.

American Bottom (Ill.)--Antiquities--Juvenile literature.

American Bottom (Ill.).

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (47 p. ) ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Describes what is known of the ancient city of Cahokia, a site in present-day Illinois which was inhabited by Native Americans from about 700 A.D. to 1400 A.D., the Missippippian culture of which it was a part, and the archaeological investigations undertaken there.

Contents:

Where and when

Introduction: Those who came before

Explorers and early archaeologists

Racing the bulldozers

Evidence accumulates

Great ceremonial center disintegrates

Interview with Timothy Pauketat

Glossary

Further reading

Cahokia Mounds and related sites in the American midwest

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 45) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-028913-9

1-280-56432-6

1-4237-7490-6

OCLC:

252613875