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In the remains of a wooden building near Cahokia, burned around A.D. 1200, archaeologists found a clay figurine that may depict a fertility goddess.(Courtesy Illinois State Archaeological Survey)
One day around A.D. 1200, a spectacular fire raged at a walled village five miles from the ancient town of Cahokia. Before long, some 100 wooden buildings were burned to the ground. Known today as the East St. Louis site, it was probably ritually important to the Mississippian farming people who live
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