[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.

[DH]

Don’t they know that it was Fred Flintstone’s dinosaur equipment company that built it?

[JoeProBono]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

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!

[PennsylvaniaMom]

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/

[PeterPrinciple]

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.”

[Tijeras_Slim]

May Have Been Built in Only 20 Years

Amazing what you can accomplish when there's no EPA.

[1010RD]

Is that why the Midwest is so flat?

[fishtank]

It’s only 18 miles from Ferguson!!!

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Ferguson,+MO/Cahokia,+IL/@38.6712922,-90.4076241,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x87df49e36de09f05:0x7b87d2fc9ee09289!2m2!1d-90.3053915!2d38.7442175!1m5!1m1!1s0x87d8b028ed6252a3:0xcd8c3181ed2c10b6!2m2!1d-90.1901113!2d38.5708849

[wildbill]

Pikers! Earth Mounds are so easy.

The Great Pyramid is supposed to have been build in about 20 years and it is composed of over 1,000,000 hewn stones weighing 2.5 tons on average—and those savvy Egyptians would have had to have quarried, transported and installed one dressed stone into place every seven seconds.

Eazie Peezie according to Egyptologists.

Of course the ancients moved bigger stones for projects in Baalbeck, Lebanon, Mexico, Puma Puncu in Peru and Stonehenge(s)but for sheer size and stone moving, nothing beats the Pyramids of Egypt.

[Magnum44]

America's Largest Earthwork, Cahokia's Monks Mound, May Have Been Built in Only 20 Years

We all know ALL govt projects take 20 years...cant finish until all the govt union workers are guaranteed retirement.