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TheMound
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
rated MA
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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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Absolute Astronomy. Chunkey.01 December 2011.<http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Chunkey >
Blood of the Gods – Ritual Sacrifice at Cahokia. 08 January 2010. You Tube.01 December 2011.<http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=GCTAbUD
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Weiser, Kathy.Legends of America. Illinois Legends. Cahokia Mounds – Largest Archaeological Site in North America. June 2011. 01 December2011. <http://www.legendsofamerica.com/il-cahokia.html >