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Friday Class work—Week Two

THE MYSTERY OF CAHOKIA

You are the detectives, building a case about who these people were. Your sources are…

1. Pictures of mounds

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2. Gellman Mink, Claudia. Cahokia: City of the Sun (Collinsville, IL: Cahokia Mounds Historical
Society), 1999, pp. 49-50.

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3. Pauketat, Timothy R. Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City of the Mississippi (New York:
Penguin Books), 2009, pp. 25-26.

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4. “Birdman” tablet

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5. Pauketat, Timothy, et al. Cahokia Mounds (New York: Oxford University Press), 2004, pp. 30-31.

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6. Danzer, Gerald A., et al. The Americans (Boston: Houghton Mifflin), 2009, p.7.

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7. Mann, Charles C. 1491 (New York: Vintage Books, 2006), pp. 285-6

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ANALYSIS/CONNECTIONS/CLOSURE
Conclusions about Cahokia (what was it?):

HOMEWORK SECTION

1. What questions would you ask an expert on Cahokia about Cahokia?

2. As a researcher, when should one use a…

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