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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812121403321

Autore

Moorehead Warren King <1866-1939.>

Titolo

The Cahokia Mounds / / Warren K. Moorehead; edited and with an introduction by John E. Kelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8173-8414-6

0-585-34982-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (459 p.)

Collana

Classics in southeastern archaeology

Altri autori (Persone)

KellyJohn Edward

Disciplina

977.01

977.3/89

977.389

Soggetti

Historic sites - Illinois

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This edition reproduces the 1922, 1923, and 1929 University of Illinois Bulletins on the Cahokia Mounds by Warren K. Moorehead, without the bibliographies from the 1922 and 1923 volumes".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-368) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures and Plates; Acknowledgments; Note on This Edition; Introduction; The Cahokia Mounds: A Preliminary Paper (1922); The Cahokia Mounds: Part I, A Report of Progress and Part II, Some Geological Aspects (1923); The Cahokia Mounds (1929); Plates; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication  This edition of Moorehead's excavations at Cahokia provides a comprehensive collection of Moorehead's investigations of the nation's largest prehistoric mound center.   Covering almost fourteen square kilometers in Illinois, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is the largest prehistoric mound center in North America and has been designated a World Heritage Site by the United Nations. Built between A.D. 1050 and 1350, Cahokia originally contained the remains of over 100 earthen mounds that were used as places for Native A