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A Formal Analysis of Cahokia Ceramics: Powell Tract
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Pilgrimage and the construction of Cahokia: a view from the emerald site
… in the development of the pre-Columbian city of Cahokia (A.D. 1050-1350) by examining archaeological data from the Emerald site, a large multi-mound center 24 km east of Cahokia. The goals of this project are to determine whether the Emerald site was a pilgrimage center coeval with Cahokia and, …
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Segmented and ascendant chiefdom polity as viewed from the Divers site
… political control exerted by the Mississippian Cahokia polity over small rural villages in the southern American Bottom. Currently two models, which I call the Segmented and Ascendant Chiefdoms, respectively, provide contrasting explanations of the nature and amount of Cahokia control over rural …
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Community as assemblage in the Late Cahokian hinterlands
… community emerged and affected the decline of Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico. Cahokia’s rapid rise (ca. 1050 CE) entailed the coalescence of community among a diverse population. This new community, which formed a Cahokian identity, was grounded in the material …
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Oneota Cultural Interaction in the Prairie Peninsula: A Study of Ceramic Vessels and Faunal Exploitation in Northern Illinois
… belief that Oneota culture was dominated by a Cahokia ideology or the ability of Cahokia chiefly lords or Oneota male elite to exert control over populations. Instead, power is examined in its ambiguity and heterogeneity. Using ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological data, all men and …
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Mississippian missionaries: bundling a Cahokian religious movement
… practices as it pertains to the rise of Cahokia (1050-1300 CE). Drawing from Indigenous philosophies and New Materialisms, I use the bundle and bundling concept to hypothesize that the establishment and dissemination of a Cahokia-Mississippian religion is best understood as a bundled …
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Creating the Cahokian Community: the Power of Place in Early Mississippian Sociopolitical Dynamics
… scales were instrumental in the creation of the Cahokia polity in the American Bottom region of southwestern Illinois around A.D. 1050. In this study, I employ a multi-scalar perspective that includes detailed analyses of material culture, architecture, and spatial organization at five sites …
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Cahokia's origins: Religion, complexity and ridge-top mortuaries in the Mississippi River Valley
… as it influenced the emergence of the city of Cahokia through an exploration of ridge-top mortuary practices across the three precincts of Cahokia, East St. Louis and St. Louis ca. AD 1050-1200. Through the theoretical lens of relational ontology and ‘New Animism’ I investigate how Cahokia’s …
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Transforming material relationships: 13th century revitalization of Cahokian religious-politics
The rise and eventual decline of Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico, reverberated deeply within the historical trajectories of the North American mid-continent and southeast. The 11th century emergence of this multi-ethnic, multi-vocal metropolis appears to have been deeply …
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An Archaeological Model of the Construction of Monks Mound and Implications for the Development of the Cahokian Society (800 - 1400 A.D.)
… presents a model for the development of Cahokian society through the lens of monumental construction. Previous models of Cahokian society have emphasized the accumulation of individual power and domination of the many by a few. Using analogies from the ethnography and ethnohistory of …
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The "Free Road": Indigenous Travel and Rights of Passage on the Missouri River
… the midcontinent. Following the collapse of New Cahokia, Arikara and Mandan settlers pressed up the river valley and established expansive transportation and communication networks that stretched across the Missouri watershed. By 1650 their villages were influential centers of Native North …
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MISSISSIPPIAN COMMUNITY-MAKING THROUGH EVERYDAY ITEMS AT KINCAID MOUNDS
… two other Middle Mississippian regions, Greater Cahokia and the Central Illinois River Valley, in order to discuss the variable processes that led diverse and unique communities to participate in a much broader, imagined Mississippian community.
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The Mississippian Occupation of The Upper Kaskaskia Valley: Problems in Culture History and Economic Organization (Illinois, Ceramics)
… knives, and hump-backed knives. Characteristic Cahokia lithic artifacts, such as chipped stone hoes, microdrills, and notched projectile points, were rare or absent. Analysis of the faunal remains, floral remains, and studies of site distributions suggested an economic and settlement pattern …