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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221117T180000
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URL:https://cahokiamounds.org/events/november-17-cas-meeting-talk/
SUMMARY:Cahokia Archaeological Society Meeting
DESCRIPTION:At the November 17 meeting of the Cahokia Archaeological Societ
 y\, Steve Boles\, Senior Research Archaeologist for the Illinois State Arc
 haeological Survey\, will give a talk entitled "Grandmother—Up in Smoke:
  Traces of Cahokians in Distant Lands." The abstract of the lecture can be
  found below.\n\nDecades of research on the birth of the Mississippian cul
 ture and the founding of Cahokia has shown that at the onset\, Cahokia dre
 w immigrants from all directions. It was\, in essence\, the Pre-Contact "m
 elting pot" of its time. We also know that people began departing Cahokia 
 roughly a hundred years after it began. Although the complete depopulation
  of Cahokia would take another two hundred years\, a substantial depopulat
 ion of Cahokia is evident by the 12th century. Where did they go? Although
  a number of researchers are focusing on that question\, the answer is qui
 te elusive. How does one "track" Cahokian emigrants? Of all the Cahokia tr
 appings\, very few would be distinguishable in the archaeological record. 
 At the top of the list\, however\, would be the Cahokia-style figurines or
  statues\, many created as or converted to pipes. A rather obscure female 
 effigy pipe carved in the Cahokia-style and recovered in Oklahoma will be 
 the focus of this presentation. This effigy is likely a depiction of a myt
 hological persona often referred to as Grandmother or Old Woman. Other not
 able figurines and identifiable Cahokian material recovered in distant lan
 ds will also be discussed
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