The ancient North American city of Cahokia had as its focal point a feature now known as Monks Mound, a giant earthwork surrounded on its north, south, east and west by large rectangular open areas. A ...
Somewhere beneath the flatlands of southwestern Illinois, just a short drive from modern St. Louis, lie the traces of a city ...
NMAI copy 39088014921126 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.) American Bottom (Ill.) ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The ancient North American city of Cahokia had as its focal point a feature now known as Monks Mound, a giant earthwork surrounded on its north, south, east and west by large ...
Grace Ward, a paleobotany graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis, collects baseline samples from a nearby wetland. Caitlin Rankin stands in a trench dug in Mound 16, one of four mounds ...