Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Book #24 - Cahokia

Cahokia Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi by Timothy R. Pauketat

"Explaining America's history is contingent on understanding its complex indigenous history, and that, in turn, depends on understanding pre-Columbian America's experiment in civilization - a unique blend of church and state, locals and immigrants, male and female narratives, and foreign ideas and local traditions that gave it an expansionist quality archaeologists must strive to understand."