Posted on 04/18/2021 9:25:23 AM PDT by PghBaldy
Pity the event planners tasked with managing Cahokia's wildest parties. A thousand years ago, the Mississippian settlement – on a site near the modern US city of St Louis, Missouri – was renowned for bashes that went on for days.
Throngs jostled for space on massive plazas. Buzzy, caffeinated drinks passed from hand to hand. Crowds shouted bets as athletes hurled spears and stones. And Cahokians feasted with abandon: burrowing into their ancient waste pits, archaeologists have counted 2,000 deer carcasses from a single, blowout event. The logistics must have been staggering.
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Thought of you when I saw this article.
It’s the original Burning Man.
I found the description of Cahokia and Cahokians to be highly imaginative.
Total conjecture from start to finish
A megacity has a population of at least 10 million.
Is that what they are saying here?
The community of Cahokia still exists in that little corner of St. Clair county in Illinois. There is a nearby artificial hill, the Cahokia Mound, which was once at the center of this thriving pre-Columbian urban area. The present-day Choctaw tribe is believed to be descended from these Cahokians, and was there as a trade center from the Mayan Empire and the Aztec empire to the south to the woodland Indian tribes of the Ohio Valley, famed for their mound building.
Then a huge drought lasting for decades spelled the end of most of whatever degree of civilization had developed in the Southwest and most of the Mississippi valley.
It was a mega-city **for its time** with 30,000 people - bigger than Paris was then.
Simple observation. Why should I believe these scientist and their conclusions? Are the institutions they come from honest? If not, why do I believe what they say or write.
Take a drive to Cahokia itself. It’s an impressive site.
I grew up fairly close to the area and it is impressive. However, why should I believe what the university people say or write? I am being dead serious.
With all that has gone on in the last five years have you stopped to ask why you trust someone you don’t know from a university?
Part of tge Southeastern Ceremonial Complex?
So, a wonderful and mostly peaceful indigenous culture building pyramids and stuff....except for the ritualized human butchery and cannibalism.
“Around 280 skeletons were uncovered. Around 80% of the bodies were young women. They were placed in neat rows, without signs of trauma. They were likely killed by strangulation or blood-letting.
In a separate pit, there are around 40 men and women bodies. They were killed by violent means, including decapitation, arrow wounds, and horrific fractures. Evidence shows some dug their nails into the soil, suggesting they were buried alive. Archeologists speculate they were prisoners of war or objectors to human sacrifice practices.”
PARTAY!
https://www.memoriesoftheprairie.com/blog/2020/1/28/human-sacrifices-at-cahokia-mounds
Looks like Democrats were running some things long before now.
Much of mankind are nothing more than savage, naked apes.
Thanks PghBaldy. It's correct except for the "mega" and the "city" parts. ;^) They really mastered the art of piling up dirt, centuries ahead of those stupid Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals the backward Europeans were building at the time. /rimshot
As far as I’m concerned they’re all full of crap unless or until I have one hell of a good reason to believe them. I grew up reading National Geographic and other periodicals. I don’t bother anymore with any of them either.
“In Illinois in the United States, a series of man-made earthen mounds and ruins from the largest pre-Columbian settlement north of Mexico marks the site of a once-great ancient Native American society. They had no written language, and there is no record detailing their society.”
Yet modern day speculators (I refuse to call them archeologists) speculate widely huge details on the flimsiest of mere inferences.
If they announced their “findings” as maybe this or maybe that it would be fine. But no. They claim to explain societies they truly still know very little about.
I grew up in the village of Cahokia, south of East St. Louis (the mounds are to the north) and have been to the mounds many, many times. When I was a kid, it was a big picnic ground where kids played on the mounds and people sat on top of them at night to get a free view of an adjacent drive-in theater. Since then, they have focused on preserving the site and unraveling its historical mysteries. It has a very good museum. There are a number of good books and other studies of the place. Well worth a visit.
“As far as I’m concerned they’re all full of crap unless or until I have one hell of a good reason to believe them.”
I have been coming to this realization. More people need to.
An awful lot of Great Britain and Europe is older than a thousand years.
Old places in the US were wrecked during the ice age. That, combined with the great flooding in the post glacial phase, pretty much stripped the plains and southwest down to bedrock.
The world—and humans—are a lot older than we think.
You just wait. Once they dig up DVDs from that era, we’ll see for ourselves what it was like.
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