Around this time of era the Cahokia people began to find a place and settle this was during woodland period, and they started it in Mississippi and they started to do mound building. The mounds were later named after the Cahokia tribe.
Cahokia Timeline
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700 AD
800 AD
Emergent Mississippian culture develops from Late Woodland roots. In most places in development of Mississippian culture coincided with the adaption of comparatively large-scale, intensive maize agriculture.
AD 900
The transformation to Mississippian continues and Cahokia begins to expand. Corn is now becoming a major food crop. Communities of pit houses are often arranged around court yards with central posts or pits.
1050 AD
New Arrow point Pottery and house style appear, and complex cheifdon forms. Population "explosion" at Cahokia grew and people moved there from smaller villages. An important leader was buried at Mound 72, along with other sacrificial individuals and variety of burial offerings. Approximately seventeen different styles were found in Mound 72.
1100-1200 AD
The "Golden Age" of Cahokia during this time there may have been up to 20,000 people living here. They built as many as five "Woodhenges". These calender's, made with posts of sacred red ceder, lined up with the rising sun at certain times of the year.
1150 AD
The last building is erected on the summit of Monks Mound (Mound 38, the largest man made earthen mound on the North America continent. Monks Mound is the only mound with more than two terraces throughout much of eastern North America.
1175 AD
First of four two mile long palisade walls built around central Cahokia. The palisade had a circumference of nearly two miles and enclosed the prominent public spaces of Monks Mound, the 40 acre Grand Plaze and 17 other mounds. Evenly spaced guard towers indicate that one of the functions of the palisade was defensive in nature.
1200 AD
population starts to decline during the century but the Cahokia continues a major ceremonial center.
1300 AD
Cahokia is gradually abandoned by the late 1300's
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