I thought it was NCAA Headquarters.
PING
Lost city? Kansas? So THAT’S where I left it.
I’ve been reading some articles lately that suggest that Native Americans actually had a thriving civilization here, but a plague wiped out possibly as many as 90% of them, which is why the Vikings had quite a challenge with them but subsequent visitors did not. It may be that they caught something from the vikings.
There are stories of settlers coming across spectacular gardens, roads, etc. And there are a lot of odd and large mounds (hundreds of feet in diameter and many tens of feet in hight) here and there that nobody has bothered to check out for some reason.
...Town leaders are hoping for a UNESCO World Heritage site designation...
Does that farmer really want the UN and other government control over his land?
Nope, wouldn’t be prudent.
I would not allow people on my property.
If you allow it long enough it becomes an easement. People never just go where markers say it is permitted. Then they would start picking up artifacts and taking them home. Some would even start digging.
If you allow them on they take it as an invitation to do anything and everything. Litter is just a minor irritation.
Unless you figure you can make a handy profit don’t even consider it.
Tourist are on the whole pigs.
Lost Vegas?..................
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.
Ping.
Cahokia?
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
Fixed it.
-PJ
Fascinating! Thanks for posting this.
"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 Cahokia’s residents from their homes. Indeed, the first white man to reach these lands, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, didn’t do so until 1540."
So Chaokia or "Cahokia", was abandoned a 150 years before Columbus.
Just so y’all know, this place is pronounced ar-KANSAS City.