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

ISM Research & Collections Center
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. Find out more ...