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The word Cahokia has several different meanings, referring to different peoples and often leading to misconceptions and confusion. Cahokia can refer to the physical mounds, a settlement that turned into a still existing small town in Illinois, the original mound builders of Cahokia who belonged to a larger group known as the Mississippians, or the Illinois Confederation subtribe of peoples who ...
At its apex around 1100 CE, the city covered about 6 square miles (16 km 2), 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. [5] [a] Cahokia was the largest and most influential urban settlement of the Mississippian culture, which developed advanced ...
This site had numerous mounds, some with conical or ridge tops, as well as palisaded stockades protecting the large settlement and elite quarter. At its maximum about 1150 CE, Cahokia was an urban settlement with 20,000–30,000 people. A depiction of the Serpent Mound in southern Ohio, as published in the magazine The Century, April 1890
Cahokia Mounds, a UNESCO World Heritage site just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, ... Cahokia was a thriving metropolis and is believed to have had a population of nearly 20,000 people.
Monks Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the Americas and the largest pyramid north of Mesoamerica.The beginning of its construction dates from 900 to 955 CE. Located at the Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near Collinsville, Illinois, the mound size was calculated in 1988 as about 100 feet (30 m) high, 955 feet (291 m) long including the access ramp at the southern end ...
The site dates from the period between 1200 and 1730. The platform mound is the second-largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the country, after Monks Mound at Cahokia. Grand Village of the Natchez: The main village of the Natchez people, with three mounds. The only mound site to be used and maintained into historic times.
Two children were killed in a house fire Friday afternoon in Cahokia Heights. St. Clair County Coroner Calvin Dye Sr. identified one of the victims as Chad Metcall, who was 4 years old.
Of these 12, only the Kaskaskia, Cahokia, Peoria, Tamaora, and Michigamea remain; others were lost as distinct tribes to disease and warfare. [20] [21] When the Illinois were first documented by Europeans in the 17th century, they were said to be a population of about 10,000 people. [22]