Medieval Mississippians: The Cahokian World

by Timothy R. Pauketat (Editor), Susan M. Alt (Editor)

Medieval Mississippians, the eighth volume in the award-winning Popular Archaeology Series, introduces a key historical period in pre-Columbian eastern North America--the Mississippian era--via chapters on places, practices, and peoples written from Native American and non-Native perspectives on the past.

Genres: History, Anthropology, Native American, Archaeology, Nonfiction

168 pages, Paperback

First published February 10, 2015

About the author

Tim Pauketat is an archaeologist and professor of Anthropology and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He previously taught at the State University of New York in Buffalo and the University of Oklahoma. Professor Pauketat is interested in the study of ancient religion and urbanism, and has been excavating the pre-Columbian colonies and pilgrimage sites of the Cahokian civilization around St. Louis north into Wisconsin. The author or editor of a dozen scholarly books, Tim also writes for nonprofessional audiences, recently including a book entitled Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi (Penguin, 2010).

Reviews

[Matthew Kim]

Very insightful!

[Bruce Baker]

A lot I did not know. We did have empire like city-states here in North America. Very interesting.