Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi (Penguin's Library of American Indian History)
Description
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...
ISBN(s)
0670020907, 9780670020904
