The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is one of the most studied Native American sites in the country. Recently, Saint Louis University professors, students and visiting scholars took a closer ...

Often overlooked in narratives of ancient civilizations, the archaeological site of Cahokia in the Mississippi River Valley reveals the impressive scale and complexity of a pre-Columbian society that ...

Over the course of three centuries, Cahokia became a metropolis that spanned more than 4,000 acres. A vibrant cultural center, the ancient city was a center of commerce. Some artifacts are made ...

Instead of imagining the thousands of people who once teemed on the grand plaza here, I keep returning to the fact that Cahokia Mounds in Illinois is one of only eight cultural World Heritage ...

One of the more than 100 earthen mounds preserved at the Mounds State Historic Site Getty Images At its peak around the turn of the first millennium, Cahokia, a city in what is now Illinois ...

The department's Cahokia Mounds Archaeology Field School provides this ... interpret, preserve and learn from artifacts, features and ecofacts. Students learn to process, inventory, analyze and ...

A new study shows climate change may have contributed to the decline of Cahokia, a famed prehistoric city near present-day St. Louis. And it involves ancient human feces. A new study shows climate ...

Native American oral history and archaeological data alike suggest that farmers in parts of North America began abandoning major settlements such as Mesa Verde in Colorado and Cahokia in Illinois ...