By analyzing the teeth of those buried in different locations in Cahokia, Emerson,
state archaeological survey bioarchaeologist Kristin Hedman and graduate student Philip Slater discovered that immigrants formed one - third of the population of the city throughout its history (from about AD 1050 through the early 1300s).
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