
Dr. Gregory L. Little | Denisonvan Origins: The Giants, The Mounds, & The Path of Souls
Cahokia Mounds and the Mississippian Urban Center
Cahokia, located near modern-day St. Louis, was a massive Mississippian city that housed up to 50,000 people at its peak around 1200 AD. The site features Monk's Mound, a 100-foot-tall structure covering 13 acres, making it larger at its base than the Great Pyramid of Giza. This urban center was part of a vast network of mound-building cultures that stretched across the American Southeast.

