Cahokia, the Great Native American Metropolis

by Biloine Whiting Young and Melvin J Fowler

Book Overview

Five centuries before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, indigenous North Americans had already built a vast urban center on the banks of the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. This is the story of North America's largest archaeological site, told through the lives, personalities, and conflicts of the men and women who excavated and studied it. At its height the metropolis of Cahokia had twenty thousand inhabitants in the city center...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252068211
• ISBN13: 9780252068218
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"