This article investigates the rise of social complexity of Cahokia's multiethnic city through a robust stylistic grammar analysis of early Caddo fine ware vessels at Cahokia's East St. Louis Precinct. We explore ceramic production and distribution to shed light on whether Caddo-like fine wares were produced by Caddo potters who lived and crafted at Cahokia, were produced by local Cahokia potters who copied Caddo motifs, or were imported to Cahokia from the southern Caddo area. This investigation helps us better understand the nature of Caddo connections at the beginning of Cahokia's development and provides a means of identifying and interpreting new levels of social interactions between the Caddo world and Cahokia. The stylistic grammar results show that the majority of the Caddo-like vessels at Cahokia have identical stylistic grammar as vessels from the Caddo world. This strongly suggests that Caddo craft specialists migrated to, lived, and crafted their homeland vessels at Cahokia and thus were key social actors in its development.

本文通过对卡霍基亚东圣路易斯区的早期卡多精美器皿进行强有力的文体语法分析，探讨了卡霍基亚多民族城市社会复杂性的兴起。我们探索陶瓷的生产和分销，以了解类似卡多的精美器皿是否是由在卡霍基亚生活和制作的卡多陶工制作的，是由复制卡霍基亚图案的当地卡多基亚陶工制作的，还是从卡霍基亚南部地区进口到卡霍基亚的。这项调查有助于我们更好地了解卡霍基亚发展之初卡多联系的本质，并提供了一种识别和解释卡多世界与卡霍基亚之间新的社会互动水平的方法。文体语法​​结果表明，卡霍基亚的大多数类似卡多的船只与来自卡多世界的船只具有相同的文体语法。这有力地表明，卡多手工艺专家迁移到卡霍基亚、在卡霍基亚居住并制造了他们的家乡船只，因此是卡霍基亚发展的关键社会参与者。