@article{a29ae88156454be287a5ea9e246f904d,
title = "9 Elements of Cahokian Neighborhoods",
abstract = "American Indian neighborhoods were very much under construction during the late-eleventh century at Cahokia in the American Bottom region of southwestern Illinois. A social order that transcended pre-Mississippian village life may now be defined based on large-scale excavations at East St. Louis and Cahokia proper. Architectural patterns and craft production debris within the greater central complex indicate possible religious, if not political or ethnic, divisions that did not form organically. At least some of this architecture was built specifically for sheltering and engaging other animate beings. The central problems in this analysis are distinguishing residential neighborhoods from other kinds of occupational zones and human neighbors from other-than-human residents. To this end, we generate new measures of architectural diversity, density, and positioning to identify the elements of Cahokian neighborhoods and examine how they were created and reconfigured.",
keywords = "Animism, Architecture, Mississippian, Urbanism",
author = "Alleen Betzenhauser and Pauketat, {Timothy R.}",
note = "Funding Information: We extend our thanks to David Pacifico and Lise Truex for their invitation to participate in the symposium at the annual meeting of the SAA and their insightful comments on an early draft of this chapter. Most of the data from East St. Louis were collected during the New Mississippi River Bridge Project (NMRB). Field investigations and lab work were conducted by personnel from the Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS) under the auspices of the Illinois Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration. Thomas E. Emerson, former Director of ISAS, kindly allowed us to use the data generated through the project. Mera Hertel (ISAS) created the base image for Figure 9.2 and Matt Holschen (ISAS) created Figures 9.2, 9.3, and 9.4. This chapter was strengthened based on comments and criticisms from three anonymous reviewers and Christopher Pool. We benefited from financial and other support from the National Science Foundation, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois State Museum, and Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 by the American Anthropological Association",
year = "2019",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1111/apaa.12118",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "30",
pages = "133--147",
journal = "Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association",
issn = "1551-823X",
publisher = "Wiley-VCH",
number = "1",
}