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Byers, A.M. 2006. Cahokia: a world renewal cult heterarchy. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida.
Young, B.W. & M.L. Fowler. 2000. Cahokia: the great Native American metropolis. Urbana (IL): University of Illinois Press.
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Holt, J.Z. (2014). Cahokia. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_975
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