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Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site |
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This website contains digital photographs and digitized slides of Cahokia Mounds taken by Professor Michael Fuller of St. Louis Community College. A short essay by Professor Fuller is situated at the bottom of this website. The essay discusses the dating and interpretation of the pre-Columbian Kingdom centered on the urban center of Cahokia. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reconstruction of the wooden palisade bastion and curtain wall. |
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Alba style Projectile Point associated with Mound 72 offerings |
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Serrated Projectile Point associated with Mound 72 offerings |
Cahokia 3 notched point with serrated edge associated with Mound 72 offerings |
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Woodhenge Excavation during 1977. Monks mound in the distance. |
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Earth snake that gives gourds. Called the Birger Figurine. Excavated from a Stirling Phase temple area at the BBB Motor site, near Cahokia. |
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![]() Monks mound looking east, photographed during summer of 2010 with sunshades for the ongoing excavations. ![]() Sunshades over excavation pits, summer 2010 ![]() Excavation form from the 2010 field season. ![]() Plain of features discovered from the 2010 field season. ![]() Washington University archaeology team working with the traces of Mound 34 ![]() Professor John Kelly (Washington University) supervises the 2013 summer excavation to trace the East Palisade. ![]() Excavation units tracing the East Palisade during summer 2013. ![]() Excavation units tracing the East Palisade during summer 2013. ![]() Post mold uncovered during the summer of 2013 excavaion along the East Palisade. ![]() Tooth and long bone of white tailed deer from the 2013 summer excavation along the East Palisade. ![]() Pottery sherds from the 2013 summer excavation along the East Palisade. ![]() Map showing the position of the palisade wall that protected/demarked the heart of Cahokia. ![]() Notched hoe with significan silica sheen/corn gloss polish on the working edge. ![]() Burlington chert (Crescent Quarry?) chert spade with silica sheen/corn gloss on the working edge (left side of image) ![]() Ramey Knives: Upper, Burlington (Crescent Quarry?) and Lower, Mill Creek chert ![]() Cylindrical vessel with complex, incised decoration ---------------------------- ![]() Powell Plain pottery vessel with burnished surface - AD 1100 to 1275 ---------------------------- ![]() Large pottery vessel with deeply incised line decorations ----------------------------- Chronology of Cahokia based upon calibrated C-14 dates (see Pauketat and Emerson 1997:Fig. 1.3) AD 1350 to 1400 Bold Counselor Oneota Phase (Sparse reoccupation) AD 1275 to 1350 Sand Prairie Phase (Sparsely used) AD 1200 to 1275 Moorehead Phase (Decline) AD 1100 to 1200 Stirling Phase (Climax of the city) AD 1050 to 1100 Lohmann Phase (Development into a city) AD 900 to 1050 Loyd, Merrell, Edelhardt Phases (Rapid Growth) AD 700 to 900 Late Woodland Phases
Proposed Chronology for the Woodhenge (see Fowler 1996) Woodhenge IV (associated with the sun glyph pot) = Moorehead Phase Woodhenge III = Late Stirling Phase Woodhenge II = Early Stirling Phase Woodhenge 1 = Lohmann Phase
Proposed Chronology based upon Calibrated C-14 dates for Monks Mound (see Skele 1988) Late Stirling and Moorehead Phases for construction of 1st Terrace Stirling Phase for construction of 2nd Terrace Lohmann and Stirling Phaes for construction of 3rd and 4th Terraces
Proposed Chronology for the Palisades (Iseminger et al. 1990: 38) 4th Palisade with small, rectangular bastions = Late Moorehead Phase 3rd Palisade with rectangular bastions =Early Moorehead Phase 2nd Palisade with large square bastions =Late Stirling
Phase 1st Palisade with circular bastions = Early Stirling Phase
Ahler, Steven R., (Editor) 2000 Mounds, Modoc and Mesoamerica: Papers in Honor of Melvin L. Fowler. Illinois State Museum, Springfield.
Fowler, Melvin L. (Editor) 1975 Perspectives in Cahokia Archaeology. Illinois Archaeological Survey Bulletin 10. 1977 Explorations into Cahokia Archaeology. Illinois Archaeological Survey Bulletin 10. 1989 The Cahokia Atlas: A Historical Atlas of Cahokia Archaeology. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, Illinois 1996 The Ancient Skies and Sky Watchers of Cahokia. The Wisconsin Archaeologist 77(3/4)
Fowler, Melvin L., Jerome Rose, Barbara Vander Leest,
and Steven R. Ahler
Fuller, Michael and Neathery Fuller 2000 New World Religions of MesoAmerica and North America. in Religion and Culture: An Anthropological Focus. Edited by Raymond Scupin. Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, NJ.
Iseminger, William R. et al. 1990 The Archaeology of the Cahokia Palisade. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.
Kelly, John E 2008 Contemplating Cahokia’s Collapse. In Global Perspectives on the Collapse of Complex Systems, edited by Jim A. Railey and Richard Martin Reycraft, Anthropological Papers No. 8, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology.
Lekson, Stephen H. 1999 The Chaco Meridian. AltaMira Press. Walnut Creek, CA.
O'Brien, Patricia J. 1989 Cahokia: The Political Capital of the 'Ramey' State. North American Archaeologist 10(4)
Pauketat, Timothy R. 1993 Temples for Cahokia Lords: Preston Holder's 1955 - 1956 excavations of Kunnemann Mound.. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 1998 The Archaeology of Downtown Cahokia. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Pauketat, Timothy R, and Thomas E. Emerson 1997 Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Skele, Mikels 1988 The Great Knob: Interpretations of Monks Mound. Studies in Illinois Archaeology 4
Stoltman, James E. (Editor) 1991 New Perspectives on Cahokia: Views from the Periphery. Prehistory Press, Madison.
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