[blam]

GGG Ping

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Interesting. Ping.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I grew up around there and still visit whenever I get to St. Louis. It’s well worth the time for anyone who is interested in archaelogy and history, or who just wants to walk the quiet grounds. It’s come a long way from the days when it had only a small museum and the grounds were used mainly for picnics.

[colorcountry]

Zelph?

[Snake65]

I've been there, great site and museum and well worth the trip if you're in the St. Louis area (the other must-see, if you have kids, is the City Museum).

[Riverine]

Thanks, Blam- It has a great museum and interpretive area.

[gardengirl]

Thanks, blam! Great find, as always.

Grew up near Serpent Mound in Ohio. It’s really neat, too.

[STONEWALLS]

...I love this stuff and spend a great Saturday a couple weeks ago walking two sites in South Carolina....I’m strictly a surface hunter but every time I pick up a projectile point I feel like Indiana Jones....

[SunkenCiv]

Birdman Tablet Discovered during Excavations
at the East Lobe of Monks Mound [1971]
Cahokia Mounds Museum Society | subsequent to 1971
Posted on 03/16/2006 9:46:13 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1597546/posts

Swansea woman donates birdman tablet to Mounds[Illinois]
News-Democrat | 03 April 2007 | TERI MADDOX
Posted on 04/07/2007 8:00:18 AM PDT by Dacb
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1813601/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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[doodad]

I have been to Cahokia as a kid and love all kinds of pre-history North American lore and facts.

I am very lucky to live an easy drive away from three major mound sites. Etowah, Ocmulgee and the one down by Columbus whose name escapes me. Many smaller mounds here and there as well. Rock Eagle is a whole ‘nother thing and is fantastic.

[TheDon]

http://www.cahokiamounds.com/

[Question_Assumptions]

This was during the Medieval Climate Optimum and ended around the time that the Little Ice Age started up.

[maine-iac7]

Chaco Canyon, pre-Pueblo is the one I would dearly love to see.

A ‘relaxed” horseshoe shaped ‘apartment’ building that housed hundreds, 5 stories high, superbly built of stone with many walls still standing, straight and true, is quite a testament to the ancient builders...the shape oriented the inside curve to the south, passive solar...

Stone/cement work that is still perfect after hundreds of years

These walls were once plastered and painted

This was the ‘county seat’, as it were, with a system of wide, concrete (a better form than ours today of roads spread out across the land to outlying villages.

It is place like Cahokia and Chaco Canyon that were, for the better part of the last 400 years, ignored. Inconvenient evidence of thriving civilizations that didn't fit within the “nothing but roaming savages”, the rationale for Manifest Destiny”?

[Dustbunny]

Interesting.

[fella]

If you want to know more about the people who built those mounds just get yourself a “Book of Morman” from the LDS people the next time they come to your door. /SARC>

[SunkenCiv]

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