Show seek mystery tery WT 0 of cahokia prof W K moorehead to open illinois relic of prehistoric inhabitants WORK SIMILAR TO THE AZTECS exploration may develop information of surpassing interest to archaeologists greatest structure of kind in world east st louis ill III probing of the mysteries of the great cahokia mound near this city has been begun by prof arof warren K X moorehead of andover MSS upon tho the suggestion of tile smithsonian institution universities and scientific associations with a corps of experienced assistants lie lic will open Cal cahokia lukia and the chain of 72 other mounds in madison and st clair counties which furnish the most remarkable memorials of north america exploration may develop information tion of surpassing interest and value to archaeologists covering 10 16 acres the cahokia mound which Is feet in height Is the greatest structure of its kind in the world it was supposedly a religious temple archaeologists estimate that the settlement of the mound builders numbered not less than inhabitants at the height of its prosperity at first agriculturists the size of the settlement site as it can be imagined from the ruins the agricultural type of much of the bork in lint flint such as the great spades and hoes almost peculiar to that vicinity ant and the rich alluvial bottom land combine to show anat the caho klans kinns were probably at first a agrical ricci turis ts they probably fished and hunted to some extent but they doubtless depended for their subsistence upon their labor in the field and their sta ale food was unquestionably corn it Is believed that the appe appearance aranca of the bison resulted in the lie abandon ment of agriculture and the development of the chase with the result that the community became nomi nomadic and gradually crumbled end and dispersed tc tile the four quarters of the continent believed to have come from mexico the preponderance of evidence se sc far discovered IR 1 that the file people of 0 cahokia were worshipers of tile the sun there Is so much atut cahokia that is similar to the works of the aztecs azteca that the conviction Is forced upon the student that it was from mexico that these people came to the mississippi valley bringing their religion their priesthood their corn their mode of 0 life and their tbell middle order of primitive civilization 1 awn tn if the exploration of the caho cabo ala mound Is not followed by any important discoveries it is certain that the control by the state will be given greater reater momentum when the people of 0 illinois are brought brou git to a realization of its archaeological value up to the lie present time the cahokia and other table like in the group have not been explored much more deeply than the plow and raade can work |