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Title: Cahokia

Subtitle: Ancient Americas Great City on the Mississippi

Author: Timothy Pauketat

Narrator: George Wilson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-17-10

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 47 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Professor Timothy R. Pauketat illuminates the riveting discovery of the largest pre-Columbian city on U.S. soil. Once a flourishing metropolis of 20,000 people in 1050, Cahokia had rotted away by 1400. Its earthen mounds near modern-day St. Louis reveal woodhenges and evidence of large-scale human sacrifice.

Members Reviews:

probably better in hard copy

Slow starting, but once you get beyond the introductory chapters that basically are a rehash, newer archaeological evidence (very late 20th century) is included about this site plus a guess at Cahokia's longer term influence. This is one of the rare audible books where I suffered through the reading. It was plodding and based on its phrasing, sounded like the author was not familiar with the contents in advance. If the hard copy contains illustrations and maps, definitely that would be the way to go on this one.