Posted on 11/29/2010 8:19:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Today we travel to southern Illinois, where just across the Mississippi River is located the Cahokia Archaeological Zone. Cahokia was the largest known Native American city north of Mexico. At its peak population around 1250 AD, it was larger that London, England. Of course, Cahokia was not its real name. No one knows its real name. Unlike the ancient towns in the Southeast, where direct descendants of the original occupants still live, no one even knows yet what happened to the population of Cahokia, after it was abandoned.
There was an indigenous village in the vicinity of Cahokia as early as 600 AD. Around 800 AD, newcomers arrived and introduced large scale agriculture and different styles of artifacts. They built few mounds. The mounds they did build were relatively small. The village was also rather modest in size until around 1100 AD, when the population exploded. The original village was razed and a new grand plaza was constructed nearby that included the beginnings of many new, large mounds.
During the 1980s archaeologists working at Cahokia discovered a circle of postholes some distance away from the main acropolis. The postholes were far too spread apart to be a ruins of a building. The archaeologists eventually decided that the posts functioned as a solar observatory . . . a sun dial. Since the circle of posts seemed have the function as Stonehenge in England, it was labeled "Wood-henge."
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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.
Posh, ramblers with axes to grind can be so very dreary.
Did he draw that from a helicopter ?
Absolute bull-poop. I visited Woodhenge on Salisbury Plain in 1994. It was discovered in 1925 by aerial photography. It's part of the Stonehenge-Durrington Walls complex and not a recent discovery at all; it's thought to possibly predate Stonehenge.
Interesting.
“Did he draw that from a helicopter?”
No. The Indians shot him out of a tree and made a totem pole of him to dance around.
That’s a big heinie.
Y’know, some of those Injuns look like “Close To Home” White people.
Later
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.
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?)
Miami has a “Woodhenge”.
Ayuh. Runnin' a bit slow. Specially on them cloudy days.
And FR has a topic or two about it. :’)
http://www.google.com/search?q=miami+circle+site:freerepublic.com
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