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Meander Loops and the Cahokia Site

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Charles J. Bareis
Charles J. Bareis*
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University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
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Abstract

The locations of certain mounds at the Cahokia site indicate that the rate of Mississippi River channel migration in the American Bottoms in the Upper Mississippi Valley has differed from the rate of channel movement in the Lower Mississippi Valley. The American Bottoms was probably the most favorable section of the Mississippi River Valley for long-term prehistoric settlement with regard to location within the present meander belt of the river.

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American Antiquity , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , July 1964, pp. 89 - 91
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1964

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