Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is a 2,200 acre site preserving the
central section of the largest prehistoric Indian city north of Mexico.
This site's 69 remaining man-made earthen mounds, wooden sun calendar, and
world-class Interpretive Center present a coherent account of the sophisticated
culture whose city was centered here.***
Located on an expansive flood plain near the confluence of the Mississippi
and Missouri Rivers, the site provided rich soil, abundant plant and animal life
and access to an enormous trade network. Cultures developed and flourished
here over a period of several hundred years before gradually abandoning the site
after A.D. 1300.***
This "virtual field-trip" has many pictures that you can use in
presentations to introduce the Cahokia Mounds to your students.
Cahokia Mounds 