Conceptual aerial view of Cahokia Mounds

Conceptual aerial view of Cahokia Mounds

Mound-builders; Mississippian culture

Illustration by Herb Roe of the Mississippian culture Cahokia Mounds Site in Illinois, showing the large Monks Mound at the center of the site with the Grand Plaza to its south. This central precinct is encircled by a palisade. Three other plazas surround Monks Mound to the west, north and east. To the west of the western plaza is the Woodhenge circle of cedar posts.

Roe, Herb

2015

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