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      The Residues of Feasting and Public Ritual at Early Cahokia

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          Archaeological remains excavated from the stratified layers of a pre-Columbian borrow pit in the middle of the Cahokia site inform our understanding of how ritual events were related to the social and political foundations of that enormous center. Ordinary and extraordinary refuse, ranging from foods and cooking pots to craft-production debris and sumptuary goods, are associated with a series of large-scale, single-event dumping episodes related to activities that occurred in the principal plaza. Taken as a set, the layers of ceramic, lithic, zooarchaeological, archaeobotanical, osteological, paleoentomological, and sedimentological materials reveal that the construction of Cahokia's Mississippian order was an active, participatory process.

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                Journal
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                American Antiquity
                American Antiquity
                JSTOR
                0002-7316
                April 2002
                January 2017
                : 67
                : 02
                : 257-279
                Article
                10.2307/2694566
                c55aec2f-184c-4283-86ce-91277fbe6596
                © 2002
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