Rethinking the ramey state: Was cahokia the center of a theater state?

American Antiquity

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 231-254

  Holt, Julie Zimmermann ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/S0002731600048587     Document Type: Review

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