The Cahokia mounds [[electronic resource] /] / Warren K. Moorehead; edited and with an introduction by John E. Kelly

• Autore: Moorehead Warren K (Warren King), <1866-1939.>
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (459 p.)
• Disciplina: 977.01; 977.3/89; 977.389
• Soggetto topico: Historic sites - Illinois
• Soggetto geografico: Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)
• Altri autori: KellyJohn Edward
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Cahokia mounds
• ISBN: 0-8173-8414-6; 0-585-34982-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778830203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Classics in southeastern archaeology.