falcon (Other Keyword)
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Falcon's Nest Site (5JF11), Volume VI: Miscellaneous Materials and Records, Part 4: Features (1993)
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Mound 72 beaded burial (2010)
This is a plan map of the beaded burial and associated sacrificial victims in Mound 72, Cahokia, Illinois. Dates between AD 1050 and 1100. The individual is lying on a falcon cape made out of beads and is interpreted by some as a possible Morning Star impersonator. Others interpret the sacrifices as Corn Mother/Evening Star (Venus). Image from Fowler et al., 1999, The Mound 72 Area: Dedicated and Sacred Space in Early Cahokia, Illinois State Museum, Springfield.