Cahokia Settlement at Sunset

A wide-angle, painterly illustration of the ancient Cahokia settlement at sunset, featuring a large, tiered earthen mound topped with a timber structure, surrounded by numerous thatched-roof dwellings and cookfires across a vast floodplain.

A painterly illustration of the large earthen mound and thatched dwellings of Cahokia, bathed in warm sunset light and drifting smoke See more

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