Estimates of Cahokia population through time.

Modified after Pauketat, T.R., and N.H. Lopinot 1997. Cahokia Population Dynamics. In Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World, edited by T.R. Pauketat and T.E. Emerson, pp. 103-123. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. Fig. 6.3, p.119.

Image courtesy of the Illinois State Museum.