Cahokia: A World Renewal Cult Heterarchy

by A. Martin Byers

Book Overview

Cahokia is located in the northern expanse of American Bottom, the largest of the Mississippian flood plains, and opposite St. Louis, Missouri. Byers overturns the current political characterization of this largest known North American prehistoric site north of Mexico. Rather than treating Cahokia as the seat of a dominant Native American polity, a paramount chiefdom, Byers argues that it must be given a religious characterization as a world renewal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813029589
• ISBN13: 9780813029580
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 599 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"