A Concealed Landscape: New Evidence from the North Plaza
Author(s): Caitlin Rankin
Year: 2017
Summary
Recent soil coring and reexamination of mound height changes through time have revealed an extremely high historic sedimentation rate of 5.2 cm per year in the North Plaza, resulting in deep burial (around four meters) of the Mississippian landscape. Modernly, the North Plaza is noticeably lower than other plazas surrounding Monks Mounds; however, the North Plaza would have been a dramatic topographic feature during Mississippian occupation. The discovery of landscape six meters lower than the rest of Cahokia questions previous assumptions regarding the North Plaza’s function as a mound and plaza group.
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A Concealed Landscape: New Evidence from the North Plaza. Caitlin Rankin. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 431566)
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Keywords
General
Landscape Modification
Geographic Keywords
North America - Midwest
Spatial Coverage
min long: -104.634; min lat: 36.739 ; max long: -80.64; max lat: 49.153 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 17026