Cahokia Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi

Name: Cahokia Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
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ISBN: 9780670020904

ISBN-10: 0670020907

ISBN-13: 9780670020904

Edition: 2009

Authors: Timothy R. Pauketat

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The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented civilization Almost a thousand years ago, a Native American city flourished along the Mississippi River near what is now St. Louis. Cahokia was a thriving metropolis at its height with a population of twenty thousand, a sprawling central plaza, and scores of spectacular earthen mounds. The city gave rise to a new culture that spread across the plains; yet by 1400 it had been abandoned, leaving only the giant mounds as monuments and traces of its influence in tribes we know today. In Cahokia, anthropologist Timothy R. Pauketat reveals the story of the city and its people as uncovered by the dramatic digs of American corn-belt…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/30/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.36" wide x 7.84" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English