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ISBN: 0143117475

ISBN13: 9780143117476

Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi

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Book Overview

The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization located in modern day Illinois near St. Louis

While Mayan and Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relatively few people are familiar with the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico-a site that expert Timothy Pauketat brings vividly to life in this groundbreaking book. Almost a thousand years ago, a city flourished along...

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Rated 5 stars
American ancient metro by Mississippi

Timothy wrote this book to bring attention to this ancient American great city on the Mississippi north of Mexico. Archeologist and anthropologist with their digging and research revealed the secrets on the lives, community and culture and artifact on this city residents. Large scale of human sacrifice was unearthed. He traced the influence of Cahokia Indian throughout the area in "chunkey" in Alabama, Carolina and Mississippi...

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Cahokia

Excellent book bringing some new information about this important place in the past of the Midwest

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A very good resource on Cahokia

Starting somewhere around 1050 AD, the small Indian village of Cahokia suddenly rose up to be the center of a great North-American culture, perhaps the only great culture in pre-Columbian North-America. Not a great deal is known about the culture that Cahokia led, as it had already fallen by the time that European explorers and missionaries arrived. In this little book, anthropologist Timothy R. Pauketat explains all that...

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A Spellbinding Book

Pauketat is an archeologist of the Cahokia site, a 1000 year old native American city opposite present day St. Louis on the banks of the Mississippi River. This book provides an excellent introduction to Cahokia and to the Mississippian culture. The author presents current anthropological theories and archaeological data in this single account. Written for the general reader, the book brings considerable scholarship to a...

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Rated 4 stars
Mounds of mystery

Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi (Penguin's Library of American Indian History) I am a lay reader and know very little of archeology, but I have a special affinity for Cahokia. In 1967 my friend and I camped at what was then Cahokia Mounds State Park and were able to observe close-up a dig then in progress, with helpful explanations provided by the lone archeologist on-site. It seemed so painstaking,...

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