Woodland Indian and Mississippian Cultural
Archaeological Sites
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Cahokia Mounds , IllinoisCahokia Mounds, on the UNESCO World
Heritage list, is the largest archaeological site in the U.S. The scale
of Cahokia and the number of mounds is impressive.
Looking up and down the "monk's mound"
Reconstructed stockade at Cahokia, and
the Twin Mounds
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Aztalan occupied approximately 900 to 1200 C.E. Cahokia
occupied longer, approx 700 to 1400 C.E. Woodland Indians who
built effigy, linear and conical mounds were here first. Who were the
carvers and painters whose art is still found at Washington St. Park,
Mo, and Roche a Cri St. Park, Wi?