A stock image of an aerial view of the Cahokia mounds in Collinsville, Illinois. A stock image of an aerial view of the Cahokia mounds in Collinsville, Illinois. Moundville, another Native ...

The remains of the most sophisticated prehistoric native civilization north of Mexico are preserved at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Illinois. Archaeologist Natalie Mueller's new study ...

The Cahokia Woodhenge was a series of large timber circles located roughly 850 metres (2,790 ft) to the west of Monks Mound at the Cahokia archaeological site. Woodhenge III had 48 posts and was 410 ...

Instead of imagining the thousands of people who once teemed on the grand plaza here, I keep returning to the fact that Cahokia Mounds in Illinois is one of only eight cultural World Heritage ...

Archaeologists at Washington University in St. Louis found scant evidence that 'wood overuse' at Cahokia caused local flooding and subsequent collapse. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Even today, many mounds remain in nearby Cahokia, Illinois. Experts believe that at one time centuries ago, Cahokia was home to up to 20,000 people. Sugarloaf Mound and Big Mound were among the ...

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ill. – There were no injuries after a house was destroyed and another was left damaged overnight Wednesday morning after two fires in Cahokia Heights. The first fire took place ...

The department's Cahokia Mounds Archaeology Field School provides this opportunity for SLU students. Each summer, SLU conducts a four-week archaeological field school at the prehistoric chiefdom of ...

CAHOKIA HEIGHTS, Ill ... “We believe that public safety starts inside of our neighborhoods; we believe that we have to be able to engage residents on their front porch,” Urban League ...