Bibliograph

Cahokia, the great Native American metropolis, Biloine Whiting Young and Melvin L. Fowler

Type

Label

Cahokia, the great Native American metropolis, Biloine Whiting Young and Melvin L. Fowler

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-352) and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cahokia, the great Native American metropolis

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

41017312

Responsibility statement

Biloine Whiting Young and Melvin L. Fowler

Table Of Contents

The making of a Cahokia archaeologist -- The Illinois archaeological survey and the prehistory of Cahokia -- Early investigation into the Great Mounds -- The destruction of the Powell and Murdock Mounds -- The Hopewellian Ceramic Conference and digging the Modoc rock shelter -- Chaos and confusion at Cahokia -- The 1960s highway salvage program begins -- The emerging picture of a complex Cahokia -- The excavation of mound -- Excavations on Monks Mound -- New sequential ceramic phase defined -- The second highway salvage project -- The struggle to build a new Cahokia museum -- The slumping of monks Mound and discovery of the Grand Plaza -- Woodhenges revisited -- The physical landscape of Cahokia -- The spiritual landscape of Cahokia -- Cahokia's engineers and builders -- The outposts of Cahokia -- The abandonment of Cahokia -- Cahokia's place in the pre-conquest world

Classification