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The word Cahokia has several different meanings, referring to different peoples and often leading to misconceptions and confusion. Cahokia can refer to the physical mounds, a settlement that turned into a still existing small town in Illinois, the original mound builders of Cahokia who belonged to a larger group known as the Mississippians, or the Illinois Confederation subtribe of peoples who ...
At its apex around 1100 CE, the city covered about 6 square miles (16 km 2), included about 120 earthworks in a wide range of sizes, shapes, and functions, and had a population of between 15,000 and 20,000 people. [5] [a] Cahokia was the largest and most influential urban settlement of the Mississippian culture, which developed advanced ...
This site had numerous mounds, some with conical or ridge tops, as well as palisaded stockades protecting the large settlement and elite quarter. At its maximum about 1150 CE, Cahokia was an urban settlement with 20,000–30,000 people. A depiction of the Serpent Mound in southern Ohio, as published in the magazine The Century, April 1890
The site dates from the period between 1200 and 1730. The platform mound is the second-largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the country, after Monks Mound at Cahokia. Grand Village of the Natchez: The main village of the Natchez people, with three mounds. The only mound site to be used and maintained into historic times.
The Cahokia polity was a political entity that existed with Cahokia as its center and exercising control over outlying areas. Unlike other Mississippian chiefdoms, the Cahokia polity had an unusual early emergence, high population, and noted greater regional influence.
Cahokia Community Unit School District 187 is taking an alternative route to securing funding for a new high school that doesn’t require putting a bond referendum on a ballot.. On Monday, the ...
Of these 12, only the Kaskaskia, Cahokia, Peoria, Tamaora, and Michigamea remain; others were lost as distinct tribes to disease and warfare. [20] [21] When the Illinois were first documented by Europeans in the 17th century, they were said to be a population of about 10,000 people. [22]
Two children were killed in a house fire Friday afternoon in Cahokia Heights. St. Clair County Coroner Calvin Dye Sr. identified one of the victims as Chad Metcall, who was 4 years old.