as they were set up in displays of what they would have done on a daily basis. I did not realize that Cahokia Mounds covers five square miles. I always thought of it as just one huge mound with buried objects instead of the area consisting of several mounds making an entire village. Wondering how the large mounds were made‚ especially the largest mound‚ Monks Mound‚ I asked. Apparently‚ the mounds of earth were made from “borrow pits” with stone and wood tools. The dirt was then taken in baskets on
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Skyler Samaan SOCI 112 A Dr. Mauxion Cahokia Mounds The Cahokia Mounds were once an affluent area over one thousand years ago. The Cahokia Mounds are located around East St. Louis‚ Illinois‚ that stretch down as far south as Louisiana. The mounds were a collection of 120 mounds that over a thousand years ago was an enormous city‚ even compared to European and other Mesoamerican cities at the time. Archaeologists have been performing routine excavations at the site since the 1920’s‚ and have
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Cultural Anthropology Case Study: Cahokia Mounds In southern Illinois in Collinsville‚ the largest prehistoric settlement north of Mexico can be found. This is the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site which is 4‚000 acres. How Cahokia began and ended to this day is still considered a mystery. The people of Cahokia built more thank 120 earth mounds as landmarks‚ tombs‚ and ceremonial platforms. The largest of these mounds is Monks Mound. It covers more than 14 acres‚ and it once supported a 5‚000-square-foot
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American tribes‚ was indigenous to the Midwest. Cahokia is also known as “the city history forgot.” This complex and sophisticated society challenges the stereotypical beliefs of Native American as being primitive‚ ignorant savages. The Cahokian civilization provides the basis for political‚ economic‚ and social developments that “changed the course of human history.” ( Timothy Pauketat) After reading Timothy Pauketat’s insightful essay‚ “ Cahokia: A Pre-Columbian American City”‚ I was intrigued
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Cahokia Mounds at one time‚ was the largest prehistoric settlement north of Mexico. The people were known for their corn crops‚ which increased the population. They were a major social‚ political‚ religious and economic influence on the other tribes in the region. Once a major city‚ now in ruins. It’s demise has left both historians and archaeologists scratching their heads. What made Cahokia so great‚ and what caused it to disappear? Cahokia Mounds was the largest prehistoric settlement north
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2013 There are multiple reasons why not many Americans know about Cahokia one reason is that the United States chooses to remember only what they want too and the United States passes down things the way they want them to be viewed as. The United States doesn’t make a big deal out of Cahokia because then they would have to admit that in fact there were people in America before the Europeans. More Americans don’t know about Cahokia for the simple fact that they do not care‚ they don’t care because
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Mound Builders Our burials may become a place for future generations to come and visit. But‚ that also makes me question‚ what will occur to our tombs in the next hundreds‚ possibly even thousands of centuries? Where will they end up residing? Mound builders are ancient values of Native Americans for a couple of purposes. In several countries there are several mounds being evacuated. This is a problem because a various amount of these mounds are valuable to generations upon generations of people
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9/24/2010 Cahokia Essay As Indian groups started to settle in the Mississippi floodplain‚ their cultures and political systems began to intertwine‚ creating a complex sociopolitical structure (Page‚ 70). The largest polity to arise out of this area‚ known as the American Bottom‚ was Cahokia. At its height‚ it resembled a city‚ extending over five square miles‚ mounds and structures that towered over smaller dwellings‚ and a population‚ that some believe to have been the largest‚ north of Mexico
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ASB Exam: Cahokia When asked to consider why the mound builders of Cahokia chose their particular location‚ there has been a theory that stems from archeological research and evidence. One such theory is that they chose this location because of the Mississippi flood plain. The flood plain would be used as a major resource for not only food supply‚ but mainly transportation to other parts of the city. Likewise‚ researchers such as Joseph Saunders has found little to no evidence of extensive trade
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The Mound Builder civilization can be described in terms of Human-Environmental-Interaction (HEI). The Ancient Mound Builder civilization built many Earthen Mounds over a vast period of time in North America. The Mound Builders were hunters and gathers but later began to domesticate the following native plants: Sunflowers‚ goose foot‚ erect knot wood‚ and May grass (“The Woodland Period”). Due to the Mound builders location they had to face many environmental challenges‚ first the Appalachian Mountain
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