Cahokia: The good news and the bad
Cahokia's Monks Mound lay at the heart of the sprawling ancient city. Cahokia as it was at its appogee The December 23, 2011 issue of Science magazine has three news articles by Andres Lawler dealing with Cahokia, a World Heritage site located in the United States. " America's Lost City " " Does North America Hold the Roots of Mesoamerican Civilization? " "Preserving History, One Hill at a Time" I have found that very few of my graduate students even know of Cahokia and its mounds which form one of the most important pre-Columbian sites in the western hemisphere. Located near St. Louis, the site is now being further studied and was even more important than was realized when it was first accepted as a world heritage site.: The excavations to date suggest that Cahokia was part of a large urban complex, one organized differently from other cities. “This was a metropolitan area,” perhaps home to as many as 50,000 people, “and you were a day's w...