@article{7c44dfd9c24b49ccacd446d4a68218e9,
title = "Circular Mounds and Sweat Lodges in the Greater Cahokia Region",
abstract = "New archaeological and geophysical evidence from the Greater Cahokia region affirms that so-called conical mounds of the Mississippian era were, in fact, flat-topped circular platforms. Historical accounts indicate that such mounds were numerous across the region and were topped by or associated with circular sweat lodges and rotundas and paired with rectangular structures and mounds built in rows or connected by earthen causeways. Our geophysical results include detecting the foundation of a rebuilt circular structure on the southeastern extension of Monks Mound in alignment with the Rattlesnake Causeway and an actual conical Woodland mound on the river bluffs to the south. Additional circular mounds and submound or mound-summit architecture are confirmed elsewhere at Cahokia and at the Pfeffer and Emerald sites.",
keywords = "Cahokia, Mississippian, circular mounds, geophysics, sweat lodge",
author = "Pauketat, {Timothy R.} and McCullough, {Robert G.} and Alt, {Susan M.} and Kruchten, {Jeffery D.} and Wilson, {Carrie V.} and Farkas, {Michael G.} and Bandy, {Brandon Everett} and Malouchos, {Elizabeth Watts} and Buchanan, {Meghan E.}",
note = "The geophysical surveys in this article were directed by Drs. Robert McCullough, Elizabeth Watts Malouchos, and Meghan Buchanan in association with the Emerald Acropolis Project (EAP), the Richland Archaeological Project (RAP1), and the Richland Analysis Project (RAP2) under permits from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and with additional funding from the Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS) and Mr. Robert \u201CBob\u201D Hormell. A special thanks goes to Bob, a longtime supporter of archaeology at the Illinois State Archaeological Survey and the University of Illinois who was himself trained in archaeology at Cahokia under Charles J. Bareis. He and Dr. F. Terry Norris provided on-site moral support during geophysical work at Cahokia. The Emerald Acropolis and Pfeffer site data herein were based on EAP and RAP research funded by the John Templeton Foundation (RIHA and 51485 grants), the National Science Foundation (SBR-9805053 and -9996169), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (RZ-517699-14). The high-resolution lidar data and imagery used herein were generated both by ISAS, under the direction of former director Thomas E. Emerson, and the EAP, with Susan M. Alt and T. R. Pauketat coprincipal investigators. Lidar imagery herein was created by Michael Farkas and Jeffery Kruchten for ISAS and EAP, respectively. John Francis Synder\u2019s notes on file at the Illinois State Historical Society in Springfield, Illinois, were provided to the senior author by William Green.",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.5406/23274271.48.3.03",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "48",
pages = "227--268",
journal = "Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology",
issn = "0146-1109",
publisher = "University of Illinois Press",
number = "3",
}