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Cahokia Mounds / k ə ˈ h oʊ k i ə / [2] is the site of a Native American city (which existed c. 1050–1350 CE) [3] directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis. The state archaeology park lies in south-western Illinois between East St. Louis and Collinsville. [4]
Monks Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the Americas and the largest pyramid north of Mesoamerica.The beginning of its construction dates from 900 to 955 CE. Located at the Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near Collinsville, Illinois, the mound size was calculated in 1988 as about 100 feet (30 m) high, 955 feet (291 m) long including the access ramp at the southern end ...
The most recent addition to the corpus of Cahokian flint clay figurines. It is a 6 inches (15 cm) in height female figurine found during a massive archaeological dig at the old National Stock Yards in National City, Illinois in the summer of 2010. The dig was being done in preparation for a new $670 million Mississippi River bridge project. The ...
Ranked with Cahokia as one of the two most important sites at the core of the classic Mississippian culture, [43] it is located near Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Murphy Mound Archeological Site: Missouri The Murphy Mound Archeological Site ( 23-PM-43 ), is an archaeological site in Southeastern Missouri occupied from 1350 to 1541 CE. Nacoochee Mound ...
The Cahokia Woodhenge was a series of large timber circles located roughly 850 metres (2,790 ft) to the west of Monks Mound at the Mississippian culture Cahokia archaeological site near Collinsville, Illinois, United States.
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]
Some nineteenth-century archaeological finds (e.g., earth and timber fortifications and towns, [44] the use of a plaster-like cement, [45] ancient roads, [46] metal points and implements, [47] copper breastplates, [48] head-plates, [49] textiles, [50] pearls, [51] native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) were ...
Mound 72 is a small ridgetop mound located roughly 850 meters (2,790 ft) to the south of Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois.Early in the site's history, the location began as a circle of 48 large wooden posts known as a "woodhenge".