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Author:

Baires, Sarah E., 1985- author.

Title:

Land of water, city of the dead : religion and Cahokia's emergence / Sarah E. Baires.

Publisher:

The University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xii, 195 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)
Mississippian culture--American Bottom.--American Bottom.
Indians of North America--American Bottom--American Bottom--Antiquities.
American Bottom (Ill.)--Antiquities.
Indians of North America--Religion.
Archaeology and religion.
Antiquities.
Archaeology and religion.
Indians of North America--Antiquities.
Indians of North America--Religion.
Mississippian culture.
Illinois--American Bottom.
Illinois--Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Histories and perspectives of religion and landscapes -- Living landscapes: Cahokia's natural and urban environments -- The complexity of religion -- Cahokia's ridge-top mounds -- Constructing mortuary spaces: Rattlesnake and Wilson Mounds -- Beings, shells, and water in burial practice -- Toward an indigenous archaeology of religion.

Series:

Archaeology of the American South: new directions and perspectives

ISBN:

0817319522
9780817319526

OCLC:

(OCoLC)962068799

LCCN:

2016049307

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)