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  Brownbag Lectures: Prehistoric Forests, Fields, and Floods: An Ecological History of Cahokia's Emergence and Decline   

Brownbag Lectures: Prehistoric Forests, Fields, and Floods: An Ecological History of Cahokia's Emergence and Decline

  • Location: ISM Research & Collections Center, Springfield
  • Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Presented by Samuel E. Munoz, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison

In A.D. 1050, Cahokia emerged in the central Mississippi River valley as a major agricultural and political center, and its abandonment by A.D. 1350 has previously been ascribed to environmental degradation, flooding, and/or drought, although few data were available to test these hypotheses. In this lecture, Sam Munoz discusses findings from recently collected lake sediment cores that provide an ecological context for Cahokia’s emergence and decline.

Sam’s research focuses on the interaction of human societies and ecosystems over long time-scales. He uses fossils preserved in lake sediment cores, especially pollen and other botanical remains, in collaborations with archaeologists and geochemists to better understand the coevolution of social and ecological systems.

One of our Brownbag Lectures

Weekly lectures held at the Museum's Research and Collections Center. Lectures are usually held during lunchtime on Wednesday. The RCC is located at 1011 E. Ash Street in Springfield. Access to the building is from 10 ½ Street (between Ash and Laurel Streets), where there is ample visitor parking in the west parking lot. For more information, please call 217-785-0037. Brown Bag Lectures are free and open to the public.

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