A SELECTED, PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHED CAHOKIA ARCHAEOLOGY

Note: this is not a comprehensive bibliography as it does not include hundreds of papers presented at professional meetings or field reports, just published materials. Also note that some authors' articles are listed only under some of the edited volumes.

Consulting the bibliographies in each of these publications will lead you to other published and unpublished sources.

This listing includes popular as well as professional/technical publications). Updated, January 2007

Ahler, Steven R., and Peter J. Depuydt

1987 A REPORT ON THE 1931 POWELL MOUND EXCAVATIONS, MADISON COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Illinois State Museum Reports of Investigations, No. 43. Springfield.

Ahler, Steven R., editor

2000 MOUNDS, MODOC, AND MESOAMERICA: Papers in Honor of Melvin L. Fowler. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers, Volume XXVIII. Springfield.

Anderson, David

1999 Examining Chiefdoms in the Southeast: An Application of Multiscalar Analysis. In: GREAT TOWNS AND REGIONAL POLITIES IN THE PREHISTORIC AMERICAN SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST, edited by Jill E. Neitzel. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque.

Anderson, James P.

1969 Cahokia Palisade Sequence. In: EXPLORATIONS INTO CAHOKIA ARCHAEOLOGY, Melvin L. Fowler, ed. Illinois

Archaeological Survey, Bulletin No. 7. Urbana.

Bareis, Charles J.

1964 Meander Loops and the Cahokia Site. AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, Vol. 30, No. 1. pp.89-91. Salt Lake City.

Bareis, Charles J., and James W. Porter (editors)

1984 AMERICAN BOTTOM ARCHAEOLOGY. University of Illinois Press. Urbana

Benchley, Elizabeth D.

1975a Summary Report of Excavations on the Southwest Corner of the First Terrace of Monks Mound: 1968, 1969, 1971. In:

CAHOKIA ARCHAEOLOGY: FIELD REPORTS, Melvin Fowler, editor. Illinois State Museum Research Series, No. 3.

Springfield.

1975b SUMMARY REPORT ON CONTROLLED SURFACE COLLECTIONS OF THE RAMEY FIELD, CAHOKIA MOUNDS

HISTORIC SITE, IN MADISON COUNTY, ILLINOIS. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Archaeological Research Laboratory, Report of Investigations, No. 51. Milwaukee.

Brackenridge, Henry

1814 VIEWS OF LOUISIANA TOGETHER WITH A JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE UP THE MISSOURI RIVER IN 1811. Pittsburgh Reprint, 1962. Quadrangle Books, Inc. Chicago.

Brain, Jeffrey, Peter Copeland, et. al.

1976 CLUES TO AMERICAS PAST. National Geographic Society. pp. 65-73 Washington, DC.

Brine, Lindesey

1996 THE ANCIENT EARTHWORKS AND TEMPLES OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. Oracle Publishing, London. Reprint of an 1894 book on Brine’s travels through the US and Central America in 1869.

Brose, David, James A. Brown and David Penney

1983 ANCIENT ART OF THE AMERICAN WOODLAND INDIANS. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. & Detroit Institute of Arts. pp. 93-180.

Brown, James A., Editor

1975 PERSPECTIVES IN CAHOKIA ARCHAEOLOGY. Illinois Archaeological Survey Bulletin No. 10. Urbana.

Brown, James A., Richard A. Kerber, and Howard D. Winters

1990 Trade and the Evolution of Exchange Relations at the Beginning of the Mississippian Period. In THE MISSISSIPPIAN

EMERGENCE, edited by Bruce D. Smith, pp. 251-174. Smithsonian Institution Press

Brown, James and John Kelly

2000 Cahokia and the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex. In: MOUNDS, MODOC AND MESOAMERICA, Papers in Honor of Melvin L. Fowler. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers, Vol. XXVIII. Springfield.

Bushnell, David I, Jr.

1904 THE CAHOKIA AND SURROUNDING MOUND GROUPS. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 3(1). Harvard University Press. Cambridge.

Byers, A. Martin

2006 CAHOKIA: A WORLD RENEWAL CULT HETERARCHY. University Press of Floridam Gainsville.

Chappel, Sally A. Kitt

2002 CAHOKIA: MIRROR OF THE COSMOS. University of Chicago Press

Claiborne, Robert

1973 THE FIRST AMERICANS. Emergence of Man Series. Time-Life Books. pp.127-146

Claassen, Cheryl I and Samuella Sigmann

1993 Sourcing Busycon Artifacts of the Eastern United States. AMERICAN ANTIQUITY (58-2) pp. 333-347. Society for American Archaeology.

Coe, Michael, Dean Snow and Elizabeth Benson

1986 ATLAS OF THE ANCIENT AMERICAS. Facts on File Publishers. pp. 55-60

Collins, James M.

1990 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE CAHOKIA MOUNDS ICT-II: STRUCTURES. Illinois Cultural Resources Study No. 10. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Springfield.

Collins, James M. and Michael L. Chalfant

1993 A Second Terrace Perspective on Monks Mound. AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, (59-2) PP. 334-359. Society for American Archaeology.

Cutler, Hugh, and Leonard W. Blake

1969 Corn From Cahokia Sites. In: EXPLORATIONS INTO CAHOKIA ARCHAEOLOGY, edited by Melvin L. Fowler. Illinois Archaeological Survey Bulletin 7. Urbana.

Dalan, Rinita A.

1989a Electromagnetic Reconnaissance of the Central Palisade at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. WISCONSIN ARCHAEOLOGIST, Vol. 70 pp. 309-332.

1989b Geophysical Investigations of the Prehistoric Palisade Sequence. Illinois Cultural Resources Study No. 8. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Springfield.

1991 Defining Archaeological Features with Electro-magnetic Surveys at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. GEOPHYSICS. Vol. 56, No. 8, pp 1280-1287

Dalan, Rinita A., Harold W. Watters, Jr., George R. Holley and William I. Woods

1994 Sixth Annual Cahokia Mounds Field School: Understanding Mound Construction. Office of Contract Archaeology, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Ms on file at IHPA and Cahokia Mounds.

Dalan, Rinita A., George Holley, William Woods, Harold Watters, and John Koepke

2003 ENVISIONING CAHOKIA: A LANDSCAPE PERSPECTIVE. Northern Illinois University Press. DeKalb.

Dalan, Rinita A. and Bruce C. Bevan

2002 Geophysical Indicators of Culturally Emplaced Soils and Sediments. GEOARCHAEOLOGY: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, vol. 17, No. 8, pp. 779-810. Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Dick, George C.

1955 Incised Pottery Decorations from Cahokia. THE MISSOURI ARCHAEOLOGIST, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 36-48. Columbia.

Editors, Time-Life Books

1992a MOUND BUILDERS AND CLIFF DWELLERS. Lost Civilizations Series. Time-Life Books, Inc. pp. 33-77.

1992b THE FIRST AMERICANS. American Indian Series. Time-Life Books, Inc., pp. 97-129

Emerson, Thomas E.

1982 Mississippian Stone Images in Illinois. Illinois Archaeological Survey CIRCULAR NO. 6. Urbana.

1989 Water, Serpents and the Underworld: An Exploration into Cahokia Symbolism. In: THE SOUTHEASTERN CEREMONIAL COMPLEX: ARTIFACTS AND ANALYSIS, edited by Patricia Galloway, pp. 45-92. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln

1992 The Mississippian Dispersed Village as a Social and Environmental Strategy. In: LATE PREHISTORIC AGRICULTURE: Observations from the Midwest. Edited by William I. Woods. Studies in Illinois Archaeology No. 8, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Springfield.

1997 CAHOKIA AND THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF POWER. University of Alabama Press. Tuscaloosa.

Emerson, Thomas E. and Randall E. Hughes

2000 Figurines, Flint Clay Sourcing, the Ozark Highlands and Cahokian Acquisition. AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 79-101.

Emerson, Thomas E., Randall E. Hughes, Mary R. Hynes, and Sarah U. Wisseman

2003 The Sourcing and Interpretation of Cahokia-Style Figurines in the Trans-Mississippi South and Southeast. AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, 68(2), pp. 287-313.

Emerson, Thomas E., Brad Koldehoff and Timothy R. Pauketat

2000 Serpents, Female Deities, and Fertility: Symbolism in the Early Cahokia Countryside. In: MOUNDS, MODOC AND MESOAMERICA, Papers in Honor of Melvin L. Fowler. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers, Vol. XXVIII. Springfield.

Emerson, T. E. and D.K. Jackson

1984 THE BBB MOTOR SITE. American Bottom Archaeology, FAI 270 Site Reports, Vol. 6. Edited by C.J. Bareis and James W. Porter. University of Illinois Press. Urbana

Emerson, Thomas E. and R. Barry Lewis, editors

1991 CAHOKIA AND THE HINTERLANDS: MIDDLE MISSISSIPPIAN CULTURES OF THE MIDWEST. University of Illinois Press, Urbana. (17 contributors)

Robert L. Hall: “Cahokia Identity and Interaction Models of Cahokia Mississippian”

David Rindos & Sissel Johannessen: “Human-Plant Interactions and Cultural Change in the American Bottom”

William I. Woods & George R. Holley: “Upland Mississippian Settlement in the American Bottom Region”

John E. Kelly: “Cahokia and its Role as a Gateway Center in Interregional Exchange”

Kenneth Farnsworth, Thomas E. Emerson & Rebecca Glenn: “Patterns of Late Woodland/Mississippian Interaction in the Lower Illinois Valley Drainage: A View from Starr Village”

Lawrence A. Conrad: “The Middle Mississippian Cultures of the Central Illinois River Valley”

Alan D. Harn:”Comments on Subsistence, Seasonality and Site Function at Upland Subsidiaries in the Spoon River Area: Mississippianization at Work on the Northern Frontier.”

Thomas E. Emerson: “The Apple River Mississippian Culture of Northern Illinois”

Joseph A. Tiffany: “Models of Mississippian Culture History in the Western Prairie Peninsula: A Perspective from Iowa”

Lynne G. Goldstein and John D. Richards: “Ancient Aztalan: The Cultural and Ecological Context of a Late Prehistoric Site in the Midwest”

Guy E. Gibbon: “The Middle Mississippian Presence in Minnesota”

Thomas E. Emerson: “Some Perspectives on Cahokia and the Northern Mississippian Expansion”

Charles R. Moffat: Mississippian in the Upper Kaskaskia Valley: “New Data from Lake Shelbyville and New Interpretations”.

Robert J. Barth: “The Emergence of the Vincennes Culture in the Lower Wabash Drainage”

Brian M. Butler: Kincaid Revisited: “The Mississippian Sequence in the Lower Ohio Valley”

R. Barry Lewis: “The Early Mississippian Period in the Confluence Region & Its Northern Relationship”s

Esarey, D. and T. R. Pauketat

1984 LOHMAN SITE: AN EARLY MISSISSIPPIAN CENTER IN THE AMERICAN BOTTOM. American Bottom Archaeology, FAI 270 Site Reports, Vol. 25. Edited by C.J. Bareis and J.W. Porter. University of Illinois Press. Urbana.

Finney, Fred A.

1993 Spatially Isolated Structures in the Cahokia Locality: Short-term Residences or Special-Purpose Shelters? ILLINOIS ARCHAEOLOGY, Illinois Archaeological Survey, Vol. 5, Nos. 1 & 2. Urbana.

2000 Theodore Lewis and the Northwestern Archaeological Survey’s 1891 Fieldwork in the American Bottom. ILLINOIS ARCHAEOLOGY, Vol. 12, Nos. 1&2. Illinois Archaeological Survey. Urbana.

Fish, Suzanne K. and John F. Scarry

1999 How Great Were the Polities of the Southwest and Southeast? Areas of Comparison and Contrast. In: GREAT TOWNS AND REGIONAL POLITIES IN THE PREHISTORIC AMERICAN SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST, edited by Jill E. Neitzel. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque.

Fortier, Andrew C . And Dale L. McElrath

2002 Deconstructing the Emergent Mississippian Concept: The Case for the Terminal Late Woodland in the American Bottom. MICONTIENTAL JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, Vo. 27, No. 2, pp 171-215

Fowler, Melvin L.

1974a CAHOKIA: ANCIENT CAPITOL OF THE MIDWEST. Addison-Wesley Module in Anthropology, No. 48. Reading: Addison Wesley Publishing Co.

1974b Prehistoric Urban Evolution in North America. In: HUMAN CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, Indiana Historical Society Lectures, 1973-974, pp. 23-44. Indianapolis.

1975a A Precolumbian Urban Center on the Mississippi. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, August, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp.92-101.

1978a Cahokia and the American Bottom: Settlement Archaeology. In: MISSISSIPPIAN SETTLEMENT PATTERNS. Bruce D. Smith, editor. pp.455-478. Academic Press, New York.

1978b The Temple Town Community: Cahokia and Amalucan Compared. In: URBANIZATION OF THE AMERICAS FROM ITS BEGINNINGS TO THE PRESENT. Richard P. Schaedel, Jorge Hardoy, and Nora

Scott Kinzer, editors. pp. 175-184.

1997 THE CAHOKIA ATLAS: A HISTORICAL ATLAS OF CAHOKIA ARCHAEOLOGY. (Revised edition of the 1989 Illinois Historic Preservation Agency edition). University of Illinois Press, Urbana.

Fowler, Melvin L., Editor

1975b CAHOKIA ARCHAEOLOGY: FIELD REPORTS. Illinois State Museum Research Series, No. 3. Springfield.

1977 The Cahokia Site. In: EXPLORATIONS INTO CAHOKIA ARCHAEOLOGY, edited by Melvin L. Fowler. Illinois Archaeological Survey Bulletin No. 7. Urbana. (revised 1973, 1977). 8 contributors.

Fowler, Melvin L.: The Cahokia Site

Reed, Nelson A.: Monks and Other Mississippian Mounds

Wittry, Warren L.: The American Woodhenge

Smith, Harriet M.: The Murdock Mound: Cahokia Site

Anderson, James: A Cahokia Palisade Sequence

O’Brien, Patricia: Some Ceramic Periods and Their Implications at Cahokia

Cutler, Hugh C. and Leonard Blake: Corn From Cahokia Sites

Porter, James Warren: The Mitchell Site and Prehistoric Exchange Systems at Cahokia: AD 1000

1996 The Ancient Skies and Skywatchers of Cahokia: Woodhenges, Eclipses, and Cahokian Cosmology. THE WISCONSIN ARCHAEOLOGIST, Vol. 77, No. 3/4. Madison

M.L. Fowler: Introduction

E.C. Krupp: Eclipses Over Cahokia

W.L. Wittry: Discovering and Interpreting the Cahokia Woodhenges

M.L. Fowler: The Mound 72 and Woodhenge 72 Area of Cahokia

E.C. Krupp: How Much Sun Can a Woodhenge Catch?

T.R. Pauketat:: The Place of Post-Circle Monuments in Cahokian Political History

M.A. Rolingson: Elements of Community Design at Cahokia

J.E. Kelly: Redefining Cahokia: Principles and Elements of Community Organization

R.L. Hall: American Indian Worlds, World Quarters, World Centers & Their Shrines

W.G. Gartner: Archaeoastronomy as Sacred Geography

Fowler & Krupp: Sky Watchers, Sacred Space, Cosmology and Community Organization at Ancient Cahokia

Fowler, Melvin L. and James P. Anderson

1975 Report on 1971 Excavations at Mound 72, Cahokia Mounds State Park. In: CAHOKIA ARCHAEOLOGY: FIELD REPORTS, edited by Melvin L. Fowler, pp. 25-27. Research Series, Papers in Anthropology 3. Illinois State Museum. Springfield.

Fowler, Melvin L. and Robert L. Hall

1975 Archaeological Phases at Cahokia. In: PERSPECTIVES IN CAHOKIA ARCHAEOLOGY, James A. Brown, editor. Illinois Archaeological Survey Bulletin No. 10, pp. 1-14. Urbana.

1978 Late Prehistory of the Illinois Area. In: HANDBOOK OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. Bruce G. Trigger, editor, vol. 15, The Northeast, pp. 560-568. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

Fowler, Melvin L., Jerome Rose, Barbara VanderLeest, and Steven R. Ahler

1999 THE MOUND 72 AREA: DEDICATED AND SACRED SPACE IN EARLY CAHOKIA. Illinois State Museum, Reports of Investigations, No. 54. Illinois State Museum Society, Springfield.

Fritz, Gayle J.

1992 “Newer,” “Better” Maize and the Mississippian Emergence: A Critique of Prime Mover Explanations. In LATE PREHISTORIC AGRICULTURE: OBSERVATIONS FROM THE MIDWEST, edited by William I. Woods, pp. 19-43. Studies in Illinois Archaeology No. 8. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Springfield.

Galloway, Patricia, editor

1989 THE SOUTHEASTERN CEREMONIAL COMPLEX: ARTIFACTS AND ANALYSIS. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln. (many contributors)

Goldstein, Lynne

2000 Mississippian Ritual as Viewed Through the Practice of Secondary Disposal of the Dead. In: MOUNDS, MODOC AND MESOAMERICA, Papers in Honor of Melvin L. Fowler. Edited by Steven R. Ahler. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers, Vol. XXVIII. Springfield.

Gregg, Michael D.

1975 A Population Estimate for Cahokia. In: PERSPECTIVES IN CAHOKIA ARCHAEOLOGY. Illinois Archaeological Survey Bulletin No. 10, pp. 126-136. Urbana.

Griffin, James B.

1985 Changing Concepts of Prehistoric Mississippian Cultures in the Eastern United States. In: ALABAMA AND THE BORDERLANDS, edited by Reid Badger and Lawrence A. Clayton. University of Alabama Press.

1993a Cahokia Interaction with Contemporary Southeastern and Eastern Societies. MIDCONTINETAL JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, Vol. 18, pp. 3-17.

Green, William and Roland L. Rodeel

1994 The Mississippian Presence and Cahokia Interaction at Trempeleau, Wisconsin. AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, (59-2), pp. 334-359. Society for American Archaeology.

Hall, Robert L.

1967 The Mississippian Heartland and its Plains Relationships. PLAINS ANTHROPOLOGIST, Vol. 12, No. 36, pp. 175-183. Lincoln.

1975 Chronology and Phases at Cahokia. In: PERSPECTIVES IN CAHOKIA ARCHAEOLOGY, James Brown editor. Illinois Archaeological Survey Bulletin No. 10, pp. 15-31. Urbana.

1989 The Cultural Background of Mississippian Symbolism. In: THE SOUTHEASTERN CEREMONIAL COMPLEX, edited by Patricia Galloway, pp 239-78. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln.

1997 AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE SOUL: NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN BELIEF AND RITUAL. Univeristy of Illinois Press. Urbana.

2000 Sacrificed Foursomes and Green Corn Ceremonialism. In: MOUNDS, MODOC, AND MESOAMERICA, Papers in Honor of Melvin L. Fowler. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers, Vol. XXVIII. Springfield.

Harn, Alan D.

1971 An Archaeological Survey of the American Bottoms in Madison and St. Clair Counties Illinois. In: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE AMERICAN BOTTOMS AND WOOD RIVER TERRACE. Illinois State Museum Reports of Investigations, No. 21, pp. 19-39. Springfield.

1975 Cahokia and the Mississippian Emergence in the Spoon River Area of Illinois. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 68:414-34.

Holley, George R.

1987 ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE CAHOKIA MOUNDS ICT-II: CERAMICS. Illinois Cultural Resources Study 11. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Springfield.

1995 Microliths and the Kunnemann Tract: An Assessment of Craft Production at the Cahokia Site. ILLINOIS ARCHAEOLOGY, Vol. 7, Nos. 1 & 2. Illinois Archaeological Survey. Urbana.

1999 Late Prehistoric Towns in the Southeast. In: GREAT TOWNS AND REGIONAL POLITIES IN THE PREHISTORIC AMERICAN SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST, edited by Jill E. Neitzel. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque.

Holley, George R. and Stephen L. Lekson

1999 Comparing Southwestern and Southeastern Great Towns. In: GREAT TOWNS AND REGIONAL POLITIES IN THE PREHISTORIC AMERICAN SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST, edited by Jill E. Neitzel. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque.

Holley, George R. Neal H. Lopinot, William I. Woods and John E. Kelly

1989 Dynamics of Community Organization at Prehistoric Cahokia. In: HOUSEHOLDS AND COMMUNITIES: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST ANNUAL CHACMOOL CONFERENCE, edited by Scott MacEachern, David J. W. Archer, and Richard D. Gavin. pp. 339-349. Calgary, Alberta.

Holley, George R., Rinita Dalan and Philip A. Smith

1993 Investigations in the Cahokia Site Grand Plaza. AMERICAN ANTIQUITY (58-2) pp. 306-319. Society for American Archaeology.

Holley, George R., R. A. Dalan, H. W. Watters, Jr.

1996 Investigations af the West Borrow Pit Group, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. Office of Contract Archaeology, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Ms on file at IHPA and Cahokia Mounds.

Hudson, Charles M.

1976 THE SOUTHEASTERN INDIANS. University of Tennessee Press. Knoxville.

Iseminger, William R.

1982 Defending Ancient Cahokia: Stockade Excavations Provide Clues to Indian City's Prehistory. HISTORIC ILLINOIS, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 10-15. Illinois Dept. of Conservation. Springfield.

1986a Excavations at Cahokia Mounds. ARCHAEOLOGY. Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 58-59. New York.

1986b Cahokia, a Mississippian Metropolis. CENTRAL STATES ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, vol. 33, No.4, pp. 228-245 (revised version of 1977 article in same journal).

1996 Mighty Cahokia. ARCHAEOLOGY magazine, Vol 49 No. 3, pp. 30-37. New York.

1997a Monks Mound: A "Moving" Monument. HISTORIC ILLINOIS, Vol. 20, No. 2. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Springfield.

1997b Culture and Environment in the American Bottom: The Rise and Fall of Cahokia Mounds. In COMMON FIELDS: AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF ST. LOUIS, edited by Andrew Hurley. Missouri Historical Society Press, St. Louis.

1997c Public Archaeology at Cahokia. In PRESENTING ARCHAEOLOGY TO THE PUBLIC: DIGGING FOR TRUTHS. Edited by John H. Jameson, Jr., Altimira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.

Iseminger, William R., George R. Holley, et al.

1990 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE CAHOKIA PALISADE. Illinois Cultural Resources Study No. 14. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Springfield.

Iseminger, William R. and John E. Kelly

1995 Partitioning the Sacred Precinct. CAHOKIAN. Summer. pp. 3-5. Cahokia Mounds Museum Society Collinsville.

Iseminger, William R. and Joyce A. Williams

1998 Experimental House Burning at Cahokia Mounds. REDISCOVERY, Journal of the Illinois Association for Advancement of Archaeology, No. 4, pp. 31-48

Kelly, John E.

1982 FORMATIVE DEVELOPMENTS AT CAHOKIA AND THE ADJACENT AMERICAN BOTTOM: A MERRELL TRACT PERSPECTIVE. 1980 PhD. dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Published by Archaeological Research Laboratory, Western Illinois University, Macomb. 2 volumes.

1990 The Range Site Community Patterns and the Mississippian Emergence. In THE MISSISSIPPIAN EMERGENCE, edited by Bruce D. Smith, pp. 67-112. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC.

1990 The Emergence of Mississippian Culture in the American Bottom Region. In: THE MISSISSIPPIAN EMERGENCE, edited by Bruce Smith., pp. 113-52 . Smithsonian Institution Press . Washington, DC.

1992 The Impact of Maize on the Development of Nucleated Settlements: An American Bottom Example. In: LATE PREHISTORIC AGRICULTURE: OBSERVATIONS FROM THE MIDWEST. Edited by William I. Woods. Studies in Illinois Archaeology No. 8, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Springfield.

1994 The Archaeology of the East St. Louis Mound Center: Past and Present. ILLINOIS ARCHAEOLOGY. 6:1-57. Illinois Archaeological Survey. Urbana.

1999 East St. Louis’s Lost Legacy: The Rediscovery of an Urban Mound Center. GATEWAY HERITAGE, Vo. 20, No. 1, pp. 4-15. Missouri Historical Society. St. Louis

2000 The Grassy Lake Site: an Historical and Archaeological Overview. In: MOUNDS, MODOC, AND MESOAMERICA, Papers in Honor of Melvin L. Fowler. Edited by Steven R. Ahler. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers, Vol. XXVIII. Springfield.

2000 The Nature and Context of Emergent Mississippian Cultural Dynamics in the Greater American Bottom. In LATE WOODLAND SOCIETIES: TRADITION AND TRANSFORMATION ACROSS THE MIDCONTINENT, edited by Thomas E. Emerson, Dale L. McElrath and Andrew C. Fortier, pp 163-175. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.

2003 The Context of the Post Pit and Meaning of the Sacred Pole at the East St. Louis Mound Group. In THE WISCONSIN ARCHAEOLOGIST, vol. 84 (1 & 2), A Deep Time Perspective: Studies in Symbols, Meaning and the Archaeological Record. Papers in Honor of Robert L. Hall., edited by John D. Richards and Melvin L. Fowler. pp. 107-125

Kelly, Lucretia S.

1979 ANIMAL RESOURCE EXPLOITATION BY THE EARLY CAHOKIA POPULATIONS ON THE MERRELL TRACT. Illinois Archaeological Survey Circular No. 4. Urbana.

1991 Zoological Remains. In: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE CAHOKIA MOUNDS ICT-II: BIOLOGICAL REMAINS, by N.H. Lopinot, L.S. Kelly, G.R. Milner and R. Paine., pp. 1-78. Illinois Cultural Resources Study 13. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Springfield.

2001 A Case of Ritual Feasting at the Cahokia Site. In FEASTS: Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives on Food, Politics, and Power. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington.

Kennedy, Roger G.

1994 HIDDEN CITIES: THE DISCOVERY AND LOSS OF ANCIENT NORTH AMERICAN CIVILIZATION. The Free Press. NY.

Klepinger, Linda L.

1993 The Skeletons of Fingerhut: An Early Cahokia Cemetery. ILLINOIS ARCHAEOLOGY, Vol. 5, Nos. 1 & 2. Illinois Archaeological Survey. Urbana.

Koldehoff, Brad

1987 The Cahokia Flake Tool Industry: Socioeconomic Implications for Late Prehistory in the Central Mississippi Valley. In: THE ORGANIZATION OF CORE TECHNOLOGY, edited by J. Johnson and C. Morrow, pp. 151-186. Westview Press. Boulder.

1990 Cahokia's Immediate Hinterland: The Mississippian Occupation of Douglas Creek. ILLINOIS ARCHAEOLOGY, 1:39-68. Illinois Archaeological Survey. Urbana.

Koldehoff, Brad, Julie Zimmermann Holt, Larry Kinsella, and Timothy R. Pauketat

1996 The A.G. Church Site: an Introduction. ILLINOIS ARCHAEOLOGY, vol. 8, pp. 38-57

Koldehoff, Brad, Charles O. Witty, and Mike Kolb

2000 Recent Investigations in the Vicinity of Mounds 27 and 28 at Cahokia: The Yale Avenue Borrow Pit. In: ILLINOIS ARCHAEOLOGY, vol. 12, Nos. 1&2. Illinois Archaeological Survey. Urbana.

Kopper, Phil

1986 THE SMITHSONIAN BOOK OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. Smithsonian Books, Washington, DC pp. 161-167.

Krupp, E. C.

1977 Cahokia: Corn, Commerce and the Cosmos. GRIFFITH OBSERVER. Vol. 41, No. 5, May. pp. 10-20. Los Angeles.

Lewis, R. Barry and Charles Stout, Editors

1998 MISSISSIPPIAN TOWNS AND SACRED SPACES: SEARCHING FOR AN ARCHITECTURAL GRAMMAR. University of Alabama Press. Tuscaloosa

Lopinot, Neal H.

1992 Spatial and Temporal Variability in Mississippian Subsistence: The Archaeobotanical Record. In:

LATE PREHISTORIC AGRICULTURE: OBSERVATIONS FROM THE MIDWEST. Studies in Illinois Archaeology No. 8, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Springfield.

1994 A New Crop of Data on the Cahokian Polity. In: AGRICULTURAL ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDCONTINENT, edited by W. Green, pp. 127-153. Office of the State Archaeologist, Report 19. Iowa City.

Lopinot, Neal H., Lucretia S. Kelly, George R. Milner and Richard Paine

1991 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE CAHOKIA MOUNDS ICT-II: BIOLOGICAL REMAINS. Illinois

Cultural Resources Study No. 13. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Springfield.

Lopinot, Neal H., Alan J. Brown and George R. Holley

1993 Archaeological Investigations on the Western Periphery of the Cahokia Site. ILLINOIS ARCHAEOLOGY. Vol. 5, Nos. 1 & 2. Illinois Archaeological Survey. Urbana.

Lopinot, Neal H. and William I. Woods

1993 Wood Overexploitation and the Collapse of Cahokia. In: FORAGING AND FARMING IN THE EASTERN WOODLANDS, edited by C. Margaret Scarry. University Press of Florida.

Mason, Ronald J. and Gregory Perino

1961 Microblades at Cahokia, Illinois. AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, Vol. 26, No. 4 pp. 552-557. Salt Lake City.

McGimsey, Charles R. and Michael D. Wiant

1984 LIMITED ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT MONKS MOUND (11-MS-38): SOME PERSPECTIVES ON ITS STABILITY, STRUCTURE AND AGE. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency Studies in Illinois Archaeology, No. 1. Springfield.

Mehrer, Mark W.

1995 CAHOKIA'S COUNTRYSIDE: HOUSEHOLD ARCHAEOLOGY, SETTLEMENT PATTERNS, AND SOCIAL POWER. Northern Illinois University Press. Dekalb.

Mehrer, Mark and James M. Collins

1995 Household Archaeology at Cahokia and in Its Hinterlands. In MISSISSIPPIAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDCONTINENT. Report 19, Office of the State Archaeologist, University of Iowa. Iowa City.

Milner, George R.

1986 Mississippian Period Population Density in a Segment of the Central Mississippi River Valley. AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, 51 (2):227-238.

1990 The Late Prehistoric Cahokia Cultural System of the Mississippi River Valley: Foundations, Fluorescence and Fragmentation. JOURNAL OF WORLD PREHISTORY, 4 (1), pp. 1-43.

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