The Chronology of Monks Mound
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12064435 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy Schilling (National Park Service, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 14-28 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Southeastern Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-578X • E-ISSN: 2168-4723 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/sea.2013.32.1.002 |
| OpenAlex | W2084411277 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 37 |
Monks Mound is the largest single Native American construction in North America. The mound sits at the center of the Cahokia site, and interpretations of its construction and use are fundamental for understanding how Mississippian peoples created mounds and landscapes. In the past, researchers speculated that Monks Mound was both one of the oldest and longest-lived monuments at Cahokia. Using a Bayesian computer model that incorporates both archaeological information and radiocarbon dates, I argue the mound is younger and was built more rapidly than previously thought. The mound likely was built in two very rapid efforts spanning fewer than twenty years. This analysis shows Cahokian society could mobilize vast quantities of labor for short periods, which may have inhibited institutionalized, transgenerational sociopolitical hierarchies
Archaeology · Chronology · Geography · Radiocarbon dating · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology
The archaeology of climatic and sociocultural change
Revisiting the resilience of Late Archaic hunter-gatherers along the Georgia coast
Contemplating the history and future of radiocarbon dating in the American Southeast
Reassessing the chronology of the Mississippian Central Illinois River Valley using Bayesian analysis
A Bayesian approach to regional ceramic seriation and political history in the Southern Appalachian region (Northern Georgia) of the Southeastern United States
AMS 14C dating of an Ancestral Maya boomtown
Monument volumes and viewshed analysis at the Carson mounds site (22CO505), Coahoma County, Mississippi
Town aggregation and abandonment during the era of urban transformations in the Cahokia region
Woodland-period mound building as historical tradition
Radiocarbon Data, Bayesian Modeling, and Alternative Historical Frameworks
Prehistoric Panopticon
From Cahokia to Capital
Creating and Abandoning “Homeland”
Matter, Places, and Persons in Cahokian Depositional Acts
Local and “Global” Perspectives on the Middle Woodland Southeast
Exploring a Bayesian method for examining the regional ceramic sequence along the Georgia Coast
Exploring the season of mound building through oxygen isotope geochemistry at the Garden Patch site, Gulf Coast Florida, USA
Circular Mounds and Sweat Lodges in the Greater Cahokia Region
Implications of Plant Remains from the East Face of Monks Mound
Evidence for Stepped Pyramids of Shell in the Woodland Period of Eastern North America
The Cahokian Crucible
The temporality of shell-bearing landscapes at Crystal River, Florida
Cahokia
Principles of Archaeological Stratigraphy
Mississippian Political Economy
Building Monks Mound, Cahokia, Illinois, a.d. 800–1400
Prehistoric Archaeology in the Southeastern United States, 1970-1985
New Perspectives in Mississippian Archaeology
Higher ground
Building Mound A at Poverty Point, Louisiana
Advances in world archaeology
Radiocarbon dating and the “old wood” problem
The Cahokia Mounds
Why Wall Trenches
Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power
Agency in a Postmold? Physicality and the Archaeology of Culture-Making
Data Analysis and Calibration of Radiocarbon Dating Results from the Cemetery of the Marquises of Jin
Radiocarbon Calibration and Analysis of Stratigraphy
Bayesian Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates
Temples for Cahokia Lords
Navels of the earth
Sociopolitical Implications of Mississippian Mound Volume
A Second-Terrace Perspective on Monks Mound
Solid Core Drilling of Monks Mound
The Residues of Feasting and Public Ritual at Early Cahokia
The DaVincis of dirt
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |