April
13
/ 2014
Efforts are underway to urge Congress to designate the Cahokia Mounds, and similar sites in St. Louis, Illinois, as a national historic park or a national monument, which would give the ancient Native American mounds more protection. The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site covers more than 2,000 acres, making it the most sophisticated prehistoric civilization north of Mexico. An additional 1,500 acres surrounding it are also part of the prehistoric site but are not afforded the same level of historic protection. A new study titled ‘The Mounds – America’s First Cities’, presents justification for national historic park status. Cahokia was once composed of a collection of agricultural communities that reached across the American Midwest and Southeast starting around 800 AD
