Timothy Pauketat's Cahokia, published by Viking in 2009, is a scholarly account, written for a general readership, of Cahokia, the pre-Columbian Mississippian city near modern St. Louis, drawing on Pauketat's own extensive archaeological fieldwork at the site. Its strength is that it is written by one of the leading excavators of Cahokia, translating current archaeological findings for a wide audience. Its limit is that it is a popular synthesis rather than a technical excavation report, so a claim resting on a fine point of stratigraphy or dating should be checked against Pauketat's own more technical academic publications as well.
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Timothy Pauketat's Cahokia, published by Viking in 2009, is a scholarly account by an archaeologist who has directed excavation at the site, written for a general readership but grounded in his own fieldwork, treated at the top tier. NotesScholarly study of Cahokia, the pre-Columbian Mississippian city.
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AuthorTimothy R. Pauketat
PublisherViking
Publication Year2009
Source TypeScholarly work
Claims Backed By This Source (21 claims)
This source backs 21 claims across the atlas. As facts: 18 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sacred Sites, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Subcategories, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 3 claims: 3 well-attested.
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