Posted on 08/20/2018 6:00:52 AM PDT by C19fan
I have read that nearly all wild hogs in The South are descendants of DeSoto’s herds that escaped into the woods.
They nearly wiped out the Southern Coastal Tribes, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, et al. Not thru disease but thru destroying their crops..................
Very cool. The discovery resulting from a recent translation of the original Spanish records reminds me of Mel Fisher doing the same thing at the archives in Seville to locate the Galleon Atocha.
It was quite a gamble, no matter which side one was on. :^) The contact was between Spanish-speaking conquistadors equipped with early modern technology, and locals, living in thatched huts, with no knowledge of the outside world and equipped with stone age technology.
I'd say, "IT'S LOST YOU IDIOTS! THAT'S WHAT 'LOST CITY' MEANS!!!!".................just for fun.............
Ping.
IIRC, The pig disease spread to the deer population is one theory on how DeSoto’s trek to the mid continent eventually wiped out those civilizations by killing off their main source of local protein.
Coupled with European diseases it was a double punch.
Cahokia?
Zap Rowsdower, is that you?
Tear down every UNESCO sign in the nation, melt the metal ones down, and recast them as a hand flipping the bird to Alger Hiss.
“There are accounts of large hanging Gardens down where DeSoto was exploring which no longer existed a mere hundred years later because the populations had died off or deserted them and nature took over.”
What were they made of that absolutely nothing remains today?
Nah, that used to be in suburban Kansas City but it moved to Indianapolis years ago.
Exactly. Contemporaneous with DeSoto was Cor0nado. He found vast areas of the continent that had almost no people.
DeSoto found lots of people in the rich coastal areas, and along the lower Mississippi.
But get very far away from the coast, and the number of people dropped off to next to nothing.
When Coronado got to the fabled "cities of gold" he found a relatively primitive, small town.
The Aztecs had a civilization. The Incas had a civilization. The Mayas had a civilization that was pretty much gone by the time the Spaniards got there.
Most Indians that died after Columbus, died of diseases that came with the Europeans. I am pretty sure of that.
The evidence does not support an Indian population of hundreds of millions. There may have been 20-30 million. Some estimates are as low as eight million. The highest estimate is 112 million.
Pre-Columbian Indians did not have the technology to support high population numbers.
I grew up in southern Illinois, so I’m familiar with Cahokia. It just wasn’t spelled that way in the post.
I see (”Chaokia”). I read right over that.
It’s a shame they didn’t leave a written language.
No, Cahokia was not a ceremonial site. Coholia was a city that had ceremonies.
Cahokia was a manufcturing center producing goods traded for hundreds of miles. There were at least two sites producing and apparently repairing celts. My cousin has a celt discovered on the clinch river in east tennessee identical to one commonly displayed from miles up river in southwest virginia. Both resemble the same tools made from the same stone found in the Cahokia “factories”
A major feaqture of Cahokia was the woodhenge facility used to track the sun and moon. It was extremely sophisticated in it’s relation to the layout of the near by Monk’s Mound.
At the peak, Cahokia had a larger population than London and some believe Paris.
As you head to St Louis for the Arches, stop first just across the river at Cahokia
LOL
Glad someone thought it was funny.
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