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Lost cities #8: mystery of Cahokia – why did North America's largest city vanish?
The Guardian ^
| 08/17/2016
| Lee Bey
Posted on 08/19/2016 11:42:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
08/19/2016 11:42:09 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
No one survives East St. Louis
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posted on
08/19/2016 11:44:26 AM PDT
by
rey
To: BenLurkin
“Why did North America’s largest city vanish?”
Democrats.
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posted on
08/19/2016 11:48:17 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(JE SUIS CHARLES MARTEL!!!)
To: BenLurkin
Because it was a neolithic city. No survivabilty when things got rough. Europe left the stone age about 5,000 years earlier.
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posted on
08/19/2016 11:48:27 AM PDT
by
pabianice
(LINE)
To: BenLurkin
While not from Illinois, I have heard about this previously.
I am curious how this may connect with the alleged great die-off that occurred just prior to European colonial migration beginning.
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posted on
08/19/2016 11:49:01 AM PDT
by
KC Burke
(Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/19/2016 11:51:28 AM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: MeganC
Why did North Americas largest city vanish?
Democrats.
They will still vote in the general election though.
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posted on
08/19/2016 11:52:20 AM PDT
by
Know et al
( Keep on Freepin'!!!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/19/2016 11:52:38 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/19/2016 11:52:56 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
To: BenLurkin
Myth building is a lot like Conspiracy fabrication. Both are for entertainment purposes only.
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posted on
08/19/2016 11:53:26 AM PDT
by
Fhios
(Progressives just don't know when to stop digging.)
To: BenLurkin
Thanks for posting. I grew up near there, and it is still one of my favorite places to visit whenever I am in the St. Louis area.
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posted on
08/19/2016 11:55:26 AM PDT
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: BenLurkin
But rather than developing, like London, into a modern metropolis, Cahokia is more like the fabled lost continent of Atlantis. Having become a major population centre around AD1050, by 1350 it was largely abandoned by its people and no one is sure why. Neither war, disease, nor European conquest drove Cahokias residents from their homes. Indeed, the first white man to reach these lands, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, didnt do so until 1540.Many of the thriving areas in the southwest were abandoned around that time period, as well. Something drove them to other places. My bet is weather patterns changed drastically for a period long enough to convince them to leave.
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posted on
08/19/2016 11:55:26 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
To: Fhios
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posted on
08/19/2016 11:56:19 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Dead people inside the mounds look to have been murdered. Sure, archeologists can call the victims ‘sacrifices’ but the truth is they were killed on orders from the elites.
People, whether Indians from a thousand years ago, or Americans from the present day, will not tolerate the crazed actions of those who control the government.
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posted on
08/19/2016 11:58:15 AM PDT
by
SatinDoll
(A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
To: BenLurkin
Depopulation and abandonment seems to coincide with the end of the medieval warming period and the onset of the mini-ice age.
So a change in the weather patterns making this site less desirable as a population center is the most likely culprit.
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posted on
08/19/2016 11:59:00 AM PDT
by
yuleeyahoo
(Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/19/2016 11:59:11 AM PDT
by
Mr Rogers
(We're a nation of infants, ruled by their emotion)
To: BenLurkin
From the article:
Archaeological work has also discovered a mound containing mass burials. While the extent of it is debated, it appears the Mississippians may have conducted ritual human sacrifices, judging by what appears to be hundreds of people, mostly young women, buried in these mass graves. Some were likely strangled; others possibly died of bloodletting. Four men were found with their heads and hands cut off; another burial pit had mostly males who had been clubbed to death.
This sort of thing tends to seriously annoy the neighbors. Sometimes, they band together and kill the perpetrators.
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posted on
08/19/2016 11:59:25 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
To: BenLurkin
In Pinson, Tennessee, there are the remnants of a city that numbered 20K-40K that existed late B.C. to 4-500 A.D.
To: MeganC
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posted on
08/19/2016 12:00:09 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(Ride To The Sound Of The Guns.)
To: BenLurkin
Anita Alverez and most of the crooked Dems in charge would tell you it never existed...
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posted on
08/19/2016 12:01:36 PM PDT
by
mainestategop
(DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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