SOUTHWEST SEMINARS | Thunder Gods of Ancient Cahokia: How History Happened a Millennium Ago

Presented by: Dr. Timothy R. Pauketat, R.P.A.

Professor of Medieval Studies and Anthropology, University of Illinois; Illinois State Archaeologist; Director, Illinois State Archaeological Survey; Senior Scholar, School for Advanced Research; Author, Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America; An Archaeology of the Cosmos: Rethinking Agency & Religion in Ancient America; Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi River; Chiefdoms & Other Archaeological Delusions; Cahokia Mounds: Digging for the Past; Ancient Cahokia and the Mississippians; The Ascent of Chiefs: Cahokia & Mississippian Politics; Co-Author, (w/K.E. Sassaman), The Archaeology of Ancient North America.