...Tamara J. Levi [email protected] Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland . By Gale J. Fritz . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2020 . 232 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 9780817360047 . Copyright © 2024 the Agricultural History Society 2024...

...Brian Hosmer Cahokia’s Complexities: Ceremonies and Politics of the First Mississippian Farmers . By Susan Alt . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2018 . 176 pp., $49.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8173-1976-2. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 Book Reviews 761...

... Robin Wall Kimmerer says, “sovereign persons.” As Indigenous women spread the Three Sisters across the continent, these plants and the attendant corn cosmologies provided narratives to explain human ancestry and evolution. Such creation stories attracted Indigenous immigrants to Cahokia, Indigenous...

..., and its reappearance in the scholarly conversation is most welcome. Christopher M. Church University of Nevada, Reno Cahokia s Complexities: Ceremonies and Politics of the First Mississippian Farmers. By Susan Alt. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2018. 176 pp., $49.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8173...

... Canyon, Cahokia, and Casas Grandes. Chapter-by-chapter summaries review essentially the same sites and authors in precisely the same order. The result is a tendentious but systematic and comparative accounting of what happened in each subregion. Foster s narrative asserts that economic growth...

... Spring decline in marshlands and waterfowl, and an environment in which floods carried off silt. The decline in waterfowl affected Cahokia religious practices that revolved around birds and feathers. French farming and military settlements consumed wood for fires and buildings, while roving hogs ate...

... Agricultural History Spring decline in marshlands and waterfowl, and an environment in which floods carried off silt. The decline in waterfowl affected Cahokia religious practices that revolved around birds and feathers. French farming and military settlements consumed wood for fires and buildings, while...