[bigbob]

meanwhile, a more advanced civilization constructed Carhenge

[muawiyah]

The Dipping Gourd is depicted in a series of mounds (of an observational type) in Indiana near Muncie/Marion/Anderson (where there are a lot of mounds).

A LARGER Dipping Gourd is depicted in a series of Council Circles OUTSIDE of the smaller one. it extends South to Seymour, Indiana, W/NW toward Terre Haute (still in business when DeSoto visited), then N/NE up to Michigan, then S/SE toward Richmond Indiana.

These sky pictures were laid out JUST BEFORE the rise of Cahokia.

[eclecticEel]

blah, blah ... that Native Americans had knowledge of astronomy for thousands of years before the arrival of European. They were not ignorant savages wandering through the woods ... blah, blah, blah

Posh, ramblers with axes to grind can be so very dreary.

[Beowulf9]

"John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony in 1585, and an accomplished artist, created many drawings of the Native Peoples near Fort Roanoke. One of his more famous drawings portrays men and women dancing around a large circle created by carved wooden totems with human faces..." Or, could it not be as this painting he did?

[Beowulf9]

Or was it indeed this?....

[Tainan]

Cahokia...Ca-a-hoo-ki-a...Ca-na-oo-ki-a...Ca-noo-ki-a...Canookia...Canooka...Canada....?

Well, they seem to have disappeared into obscurity. What better explanation for the origins of Canada?

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Later

[Verginius Rufus]

Of course we don’t know the real name of Stonehenge either—at least not what the people who built it called it. That would have been before the Celtic invasion of Britain.

[ApplegateRanch]

My, oh my! Cahokia sure has changed since our visit in 1982!

And that visit was an accident. We hit the SW entrance to the St Louis bridge at rush hour. 2 lanes had to merge left to stay on the freeway, while 4 lanes from the city proper were trying to merge right, to hit the East St Louis off ramps! We were more less trapped, then saw the sign for Cahokia, and said, “YES!”

A very pleasant, interesting, and educational breather, while the traffic cleared...and yet another place we had to kicked out of so they could close.

(Did I ever mention the time we got locked in, and had to break OUT of the Queen Mary?)

[Does so]

Miami has a “Woodhenge”.

[bkepley]

I don’t know what is such a big deal here. There are seasons, people needed to keep track of them. They built devices to do this. Animals have been suspected of using the stars to navigate although I don’t know if it’s ever been proven. People built devices long ago to track the stars and everyone thinks it’s some kind of shocking discovery.

[colorado tanker]

Today we travel to southern Illinois, where just across the Mississippi River is located the Cahokia Archaeological Zone.

This guy is directionally impaired. Across the Mississippi from Southern Illinois is Missouri. But of course, Cahokia is in Illinois.