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BuildersOf 

Cahokia

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Cahokia was located along the Mississippi River ,a few miles east of modern-day St. Louis

http://lexiline.blogspot.com/2006/09/cahokia-mounds-earth-sky-map-updated.html  http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/walter.sargent/public.www/web%20103/unit%201%20old%20worlds.html  

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CahokiaCity of the Sun

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Press

Reports

A BOOKLET PROMOTING THE

PRESERVATION OF CAHOKIA MOUNDSBY THE "CAHOKIA MOUND

ASSOCIATION" IN 1917

PETE BOSTROM LIBRARY

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Timeline:State Historic Site

http://cahokiamounds.org/explore/timeline

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HUMAN SACRIFICE:A ritual to honor their God of Fertility

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The Cahokia Mounds

Located in the city, the Cahokia people erected one-hundred and twenty large earthen

mounds. Before each mound was created, a ritual took place first dedicating the

grounds to the gods. These mounds encompassed more than two thousand acres.

MONK’S MOUND The largest of these mounds was a tiered pyramid located in the center of the city and

at the peak of the mound the ruling priest lived in a wooden temple. The temple was

approximately105 feet long, 48 feet wide, and stood 50 feet high. The mound itself is

1,000 feet long, 800 feet wide and has four balconies attached to it.

MOUND OF THE RULER

“In one ridgetop mound lying outside the City's palisaded inner core archaeologists

found a burial of a high-ranking male [about 45 years of age] who had been laid on a

blanket of more than 20,000 marine shell disc beads and surrounded by caches of

arrowheads, polished stone artifacts, mica, 4 sacrificed males [with their heads and

hands missing] & a separate mass grave containing 53 females, possibly to serve him

in the next life. Several other mass burials were also uncovered.”

<http://www.cabrillo.edu/~crsmith/cahokia.html>  

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The Cahokia Mounds cont. 

The Grand Plaza covered almost 50 acres of land; was a publicgathering place for people to feast, have processions & and a place toplay chunkey.(…played by rolling disc shaped stones across the ground and throwingspears at them in an attempt to place the spear as close to the stoppedstone as possible.”) 

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Chunkey 

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The Cahokia citywas the trade center

of the Americas.They were the

innovators of their

time.

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