Cahokia
by Timothy R. Pauketat · first published 2010
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Much of it was deliberately destroyed and obscured. Large parts of Cahokia were destroyed by highway and suburban development, and it wasn't that city planners and officials didn't know it was there. They often suppressed discoveries and tried to cut archaeologists out of the…
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