My colleagues and I propose that Serpent Mound is actually three separate mounds representing the two ... the Mississippian civilization centered at Cahokia near what is now St. Louis, and the ...

Yet Serpent Mound really isn’t so big by modern ... Heading west on Collinsville Road, drive 1.3 miles to the entrance of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. It’s hard to say which is worse ...

Today Cahokia Mounds is an Illinois state heritage site ... like a fanged water spirit that’s part serpent with deer antlers. DUNCAN: And it's a narrative that's going on in there with ...

The inhabitants of Cahokia did not use a writing system, and researchers today rely heavily on archaeology to interpret it. The name of the people who built the mounds is lost to time, so the city ...

“For those who don’t know, Cahokia is the largest mound civilization ... “These effigy mounds are a conjoined serpent, and the serpent goes in and out of the earth around you,” he said.

Cahokia Mounds, some 13 km north-east of St Louis, Missouri, is the largest pre-Columbian settlement north of Mexico. It was occupied primarily during the Mississippian period (800–1400), when it ...

View of Monks Mound Temple at Cahokia Mounds as seen through the the award-winning app which makes on location views possible. The Cahokia Mounds Museum Society has won an excellence award for ...

CAHOKIA MOUNDS, Illinois — I am standing atop a 100-foot-high temple mound, the largest known earthwork in the Americas built by prehistoric peoples. The temperatures, in the high 80s ...

Cahokia Mounds was the center of the North American mound-building culture, reaching its height by about C.E. 1200. However, within 200 years, the city and surrounding villages were largely ...

In preparation, Lee visited the Cahokia Mounds twice and read as much as he could about the succession of conquering tribes who lived in the community over the centuries, including the Chickasaw ...