Cahokia Flashcards

267853963	General Mississippian Period	(AD 1000 - 1500) Agricultural economy; Maize! Regional polities. The major centers were Cahokia, Moundville, etc. There was monumental architecture: earthen mounds.	0
267853964	AD 900	First occupied!	1
267853965	AD 1050	Maximum Peak!	2
267853966	Post-AD 1350	Decline!	3
267853967	Monk's Mound	It was the largest structure. It would take 30 people filling eight 55 pound baskets of dirt a day. It took 167 years to build and decorate. It was believed that they built this seasonally and not all at once.	4
267853968	Mound 72	(AD 1000 - 1100) they buried 270 individuals. Melvin Fowler excavated it in 1972. There was woodhenge, a charnel house, and burials. The mass internment had females, males, and some headless burials. There was a high status burial on a bed of shell beads. They also found a grave of 50 women together between the ages of 18-23. They discovered a lot of relationships with others around North America. They also found "chungke" stones, which are disks for a game.	5
267853969	Palisade	They used 20,000 longs to construct this structure. it was rebuilt three times and it was used as a defensive structure.	6