Richard Edging excavated a location along this geographic feature called the Turk Site, which was occupied around the Dorena and Medley Phases. Holly Bluff and Medora were established near this feature during a successor culture to the Marksville, the Plaquemine culture. "Cooking balls" were uncovered near this feature at a site whose semicircular embankments extended out from a central plaza, called Poverty Point. A (*) culture named for this feature preceded the Taensa and Natchez and created a spear-throwing game called chunkey. This feature names a Woodland Period culture that created "America's Woodhenge" and dozens of raised earth mounds, including Monks Mound. The settlement of Cahokia was founded on, for 10 points, what American river that passes through St. Louis? ■END■
ANSWER: Mississippi River [or Mississippi Delta; or Mississippi River Valley; or Mississippian culture]
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