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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.
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 ...
Moundville: Ranked with Cahokia as one of the two most important sites at the core of the Mississippian culture, [11] located near Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Parkin site : The type site for the "Parkin phase", an expression of Late Mississippian culture, believed by many archaeologists to be the province of Casqui visited by Hernando de Soto in 1542.
Cahokia became the most important center for the Mississippian culture. This culture was expressed in settlements that ranged along major waterways across what is now the Midwest, Eastern, and Southeastern United States. Cahokia was located in a strategic position near the confluence of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois rivers.
Cahokia was a major regional chiefdom, with trade and tributary chiefdoms located in a range of areas from bordering the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Kincaid [19] c. 1050–1400 CE, [20] is one of the largest settlements of the Mississippian culture, it was located at the southern tip of present-day U.S. state of Illinois.
Cahokia High School was built in the late 1940s and established in 1952. “Needless to say, over those years of usage, with the number of students who’ve been in the building and just useful ...
By trading, Cahokia may have been trying to bring outsiders within their sphere of influence, evidenced in the sudden large amount of Cahokian material culture found outside of Cahokia. At a more local scale, the sudden appearance and proliferation of Cahokian artifacts is coupled with housing reorganization of peoples and the incorporation of ...
Melvin L. Fowler (December 3, 1924–September 6, 2008) was an American archaeologist, author, and the primary expert on the Cahokia mounds, the largest ancient metropolis in North America. [1] [2] Published books include Cahokia, the Great Native American Metropolis [3] and The Cahokia Atlas: A Historical Atlas of Cahokia Archaeology. [4]