Cahokia
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- Monks Mound is the largest earthen structure at Cahokia (for scale, people below and on top). About 80 earthen mounds or earthworks survive at the archeology site out of perhaps as many as 120 at the city's apex.
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- USA
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- St. Clair County, Illinois, U.S.
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- Collinsville, Illinois
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- 2200
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- Illinois Historic Preservation Division
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- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
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- Monks Mound - Summer 2024.jpg
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27 sectionsContents
- History
- Historical overview
- Development (9th and 10th centuries)
- Rise and peak (11th and 12th centuries)
- Decline (13th and 14th centuries)
- Abandonment and resettling (15th through 19th centuries)
- Contemporary usage (post 19th-century)
- Descendant communities
- Cahokia Museum and Interpretive Center
- Academia
- Designations
- Agriculture
- Notable features
- Urban landscape
- Domestic architecture
- Monks Mound
- Mound 72
- Copper workshop
- Cahokia Woodhenge
- Greater Cahokia
- Related mounds
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
The Cahokia Mounds (also simply known as Cahokia) (11 MS 2) is the site of a Native American city (which existed 1050–1350 CE) directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis. The state archaeology park lies in south-western Illinois between East St. Louis and Collinsville. The park covers , or about , and contains about 80 manmade mounds, but the ancient city was much larger. At its apex around 1100 CE, the city covered about , included about 120 earthworks in a wide range of sizes, shapes, and functions, and had a population of between 15,000 and 20,000 people.
Cahokia was the largest and most influential urban settlement of the Mississippian culture, which developed advanced societies across much of what is now the Central and the Southeastern United States, beginning around 1000 CE. Today, the Cahokia Mounds are considered to be the largest and most complex archaeological site north of the great pre-Columbian cities in Mexico.
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14th-century disestablishments in North America7th-century establishments in North AmericaArchaeological museums in IllinoisArchaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in IllinoisCahokiaFormer Native American populated places in the United StatesFormer populated places in IllinoisHistory of Greater St. LouisMiddle Mississippian cultureMounds in IllinoisMuseums in St. Clair County, Illinois