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Article: Cahokia Mounds
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CAHOKIA MOUNDS
CAHOKIA MOUNDS.
This prehistoric settlement on the alluvial plain of the Mississippi River valley about four miles northeast of present-day East Saint Louis is the largest archaeological site north of central Mexico. Excavations at Cahokia began in the mid-twentieth century as salvage operations preceding construction of a highway. Major archaeological investigations were initiated in 1984 by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency and its chief archaeologist for the site, Thomas Emerson. A focus of development of the Mississippian culture in the Midwest between a.d. 700 and 1350, Cahokia's population, estimated at between 10,000 and 25,000, probably peaked from a.d. ...
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