New Insights into Mississippian Culture at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)
Past and ongoing research at Cahokia, its satellites and outliers, has produced a plethora of information, old and new, which contributes to a better understanding of how this site was planned, organized, occupied, and evolved over several centuries. Current research also demonstrates how Cahokia related to and interacted with neighboring and distant sites, and how it reflected the cosmology of the Mississippian cultural tradition. This symposium will summarize the findings of current research in the greater Cahokia area, including the expansion of previous excavations, evidence copper technology, the relationship of Cahokia to its outlying communities, new insights on community planning from geophysical tests, the astronomy and geometry of the site, and the internal reorganization and development of Cahokia proper.
Other Keywords
Cahokia •
Mississippian •
Cahokia mounds •
Ramey Incised •
Pottery •
Geophysics •
Spatial Analysis •
Religion •
Resistivity •
Urbanism
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- Documents (16)
- Building Below the Surface: Earth Moving and Caching at Cahokia’s CABB Tract (2017)
- Building the Wall: Excavations of Cahokia's East Palisade (2017)
- Cahokia's Mound 34 and the Moorehead Moment (2017)
- Cahokia: City at the Center of the Mississippian Cosmos (2017)
- The Changing Use of Space in Cahokia’s Urban Epicenter: Archaeological Investigations on the Merrell Tract (2011-2016) (2017)
- A Concealed Landscape: New Evidence from the North Plaza (2017)
- Greeting the Dawn: Investigations of Cahokia's East Plaza (2017)
- Ground truthing Cahokia's Feature X anomaly (2017)
- Mapping Residential and Public Space in Cahokia’s Merrell Tract: Results of Recent Magnetic Surveys (2017)
- The Mitchell Site: An Upgrade (2017)
- Monks Mound: Retrospective Thoughts and Prospective Potentials (2017)
- New Views of Cahokia's Urban Landscape: Multi-Instrument Geophysical Survey at the Ramey Field (2017)
- Pottery and Religion at Greater Cahokia’s Emerald Acropolis (2017)
- Quantifying Variation in Ramey Incised Motifs: A Stylistic Evaluation of Cahokian Authority Across the American Bottom (2017)
- Redefining Cahokia: City of the Cosmos (2017)
- The Spatial Analysis of Debris from the Mound 34 Copper Workshop (2017)