The Cahokia Mounds (Classics in Southeastern Archaeology) - Softcover

Moorehead, Warren King

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081731010X ISBN 13: 9780817310103

Publisher: University of Alabama Press, 2000

Synopsis

This is a report of archaeological investigations conducted at Cahokia from 1921 to 1927 by Warren Moorehead, who confirmed that the mounds were built by indigenous people and who worked to assure preservation of the site. It includes his 1929 report along with portions of two preliminary reports.

About this title

Review:

"Warren K. Moorehead's 1920s excavations in and around Cahokia, the most extensive such research in this locality before the 1960s, is resurrected in this republication. Kelly's masterful introduction provides the reader with an invaluable framework for comprehending the character, extent, and significance of Moorehead's underappreciated contributions to Cahokia archaeology. "—James Stoltman, University of Wisconsin

"Moorehead's descriptions are all that remains now of the archaeological record for much of the area."—American Antiquity

About the Author:

John Kelly is a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Washington University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Alabama Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 081731010X
• ISBN 13: 9780817310103
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Kelly John E.