Download or read book CAHOKIA CHIEFDOM written by MILNER GEORGE R and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1998-10-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his own extensive surveys and excavations, and on a wide array of research that has been conducted in the central Mississippi Valley during the past several decades, Milner argues that, while clearly impressive for its time, Cahokia-area society differed little in its basic organization from the smaller, less complex chiefdoms that dotted the southern Eastern Woodlands.