An artist's rendering depicts Cahokia's city center at its prime (Painting by L. K. Townsend/Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site)
An aerial view of Monks Mound, the largest prehistoric earthwork in North America.
Posted on 09/27/2015 12:35:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
An artist's rendering depicts Cahokia's city center at its prime (Painting by L. K. Townsend/Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site)
An aerial view of Monks Mound, the largest prehistoric earthwork in North America.
When I was a little, really little girl. I lived in Cahokia. For the life of me I don’t remember seeing these mounds. But there was a fresh spring water fountain that my Mom used to take me to. It was delicious.
Don’t they know that it was Fred Flintstone’s dinosaur equipment company that built it?
Fascinating. I never knew about this. Might have to fly down there and check it out.
It’s obvious. They thought global warming was going to raise the ocean levels to a new high so they humped and slaved to built a safe haven.
There are still some small mounds in some state parks ( i.e. Perrot state park near Trempealeau, Wi). But near McGregor, Iowa is Effigy Mounds Nat. Monument where there are larger mounds.
Isn’t this where they found a pit with the skeletons of fifty three teen Indian girls who had been sacrificed?
Wasn’t life great back before Columbus!
I went to college in Cahokia.
In my teens, I worked for a farmer in the town of Ashford, WI (Fond du Lac County). He explained how he had been approached by a tribe who’s mounds had been built on the land his farm enveloped. As they explained what they were looking for, he began to remember/recognize land features that they were describing (from his childhood exploring on the family farm), and was able to take them directly to the these land features. There were several mounds, in formation, spread out over 300 acres. The mounds had been somewhat preserved because the mounds would have been difficult to cultivate, and were surrounded by stands of large trees. There was a network of trails that the farmer had thought were deer trails, but were also a part of the mound structures.
I have to go visit him and his wife again!
Same story in prime Iowa farmland areas.
Obvious mounds and human-related features not easily noticeable unless someone points them out. Then they are obvious. Sometimes mounds are assumed to be glacial moraine features.
I don’t comment a lot on your wonderful threads, but I read them and am appreciative of the pings!
I’ve only been to the Moundsville, WV museum once, and I have always wanted to go back and learn more about it...it’s the second largest (next to Cahokia...
http://moundville.ua.edu/moundville/
They were sod busters:
Parts of it appear to have been built from whole blocks of sod, rather than basketfuls of soil.
“They are cut sodblocks turned upside down and stacked like bricks,” Lopinot said.
Schilling added, “This is the first time sodblock construction, or repair, has been identified in the mound.”
Amazing what you can accomplish when there's no EPA.
Probably why Columbus came.
Nice!
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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having been born and raised in Iowa, don’t recall seeing those..
Indian burial mounds??
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