Stratigraphic profile (based on block excavations and sediment cores) through the Grand Plaza at Cahokia showing the extent of cultural modification of the landscape.
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Stratigraphic profile (based on block excavations and sediment cores) through the Grand Plaza at Cahokia showing the extent of cultural modification of the landscape.
Dalan, R.A. 1997. The Construction of Mississippian Cahokia. In Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World, edited by T.R. Pauketat and T.E. Emerson, pp. 89-102. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. Fig. 5.4, p.95
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