Cahokia Building Density Data. After Pauketat & Lopinot 1997, Table 6.1.

 

Combined Tracts (20,902 m2)

Adjusted Bldg. Data*

Phase

N of Bldgs.

m2 (x=47.84)

N/km2

m2/km2

N/km2

m2/km2

Mean FloorArea(m2)

Merrell

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Edelhardt

63

362

3013.9

17318.1

60.28

346.36

5.75

Lohmann

129

1335

6171.4

63866.4

123.42

1277.32

10.35

Stirling

85

1577

4066.4

75443.7

40.66

754.44

18.55

Moorehead

37

851

1770.1

40711.8

23.6

542.83

23

Sand Prairie

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Total

314

4125

15022

197340

247.96

2920.95

 

*Combined tract figures divided by duration of phase to obtain building N and M2 per km3 per year

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.