Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World.
Edited by Timothy Pauketat and Thomas Emerson

1997
University of Nebraska Press

Softcover Price: $28.00

Book Description From the Back Cover

"About one thousand years ago, Native Americans built hundreds of earthen platform mounds, plazas, residential areas, and other types of monuments in the vicinity of present-day St. Louis. This sprawling complex, known to archaeologists as Cahokia, was the dominant cultural, ceremonial, and trade center north of Mexico for centuries.

"This stimulating collection of essays casts new light on the remarkable accomplishment of Cahokia. The nine contributors explore a wide range of topics - religion, trade, the nature of local and regional ideologies, social organization, subsistence, mound construction, and the longstanding question of Cahokia's relationship to later Mississippian chiefdoms across the Southeast."

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations & Tables

1. Introduction: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World (Timothy Pauketat and Thomas E. Emerson)

2. Cahokian Political Economy (Timothy Pauketat)

3. Cahokian Food Production Reconsidered (Neil H. Lopinot)

4. Patterns of Faunal Exploitation of Cahokia (Lucretia S. Kelly)

5. The Construction of Mississippian Cahokia (Rinita A. Dolan)

6. Cahokian Population Dynamics (Timothy Pauketat and Neil H. Lopinot)

7. Cahokia Settlement and Social Structures as Viewed from the ICT-II (James M. Collins)

8. Stirling-Phase Sociopolitical Activity at East St. Louis and Cahokia (John E. Kelly)

9. Reflections from the Countryside on Cahokian Hegemony (Thomas E. Emerson)

10. Cahokian Elite Ideology and the Mississippian Cosmos (Thomas E. Emerson)

11. Some Developmental Parallels between Cahokia and Moundville (Vernon James Knight, Jr.)

12. The Role of Cahokia in the Evolution of Southeastern Mississippian Society (David G. Anderson)

13. Conclusion: Cahokia and the Four Winds (Timothy Pauketat and Thomas E. Emerson)

Notes

References

Contributors

Index