Bibliograph

Cahokia, America's lost metropolis, by Liz Gray

Type

Label

Cahokia, America's lost metropolis, by Liz Gray

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Cahokia

Medium

electronic resource

Oclc number

708216802

Responsibility statement

by Liz Gray

Runtime

Sub title

America's lost metropolis

Summary

Cahokia began with a big-bang and by a big-bang I mean that it was explosive. People moved to Cahokia within a very short period of time, in matter of years, a few years possibly. It's a beginning of a ... of a new world in a sense, it's a Cahokian world. The new world was a great city of earth mounds. As early as 1050 AD , downtown Cahokia contained about a 120 mounds, covering six square miles. Clusters of Mounds, the suburbs stretched over both sides of the Mississippi , now covered by parts of present days St. Louis. Until this was lost under highways and office blocks, St. Louis was once known as Mound City. Only a few paintings and photographs have survived. The biggest mound here was destroyed just over a 100 years ago

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

Creator