The Beaded Burial, Cahokia (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

The Beaded Burial, Cahokia

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Researchers discovered that a famous 'beaded burial' in Mound 72 at Cahokia held high-status males and females, not just males, as was previously thought.

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Graphic by Julie McMahon

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