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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“I found the description of Cahokia and Cahokians to be highly imaginative.”
Nice way to put that they make stuff up.
And it is wondered why the civilization disappeared.
They can’t blame Europeans.
Other tribes went Old Testament on them.
Maybe they were celebrating this.
But but but you know evil white men cause all of the world’s problems (sarcasm alert)
No they had Amazon... 😀
Seems to me somebody didn’t want somebody else breeding anymore. They came to the party but they never left.
Yup. Very disappointing. Nary a mention of any verbal history of tribes in North America about the site, yet it had to be ‘Native American’ and not something else.
And they critique the ‘trade’ bias. /s But this is the same field of ‘expertise’ which destroyed the stratigraphic evidence at Hueyatlaco by permitting development on the site.
The same field of ‘expertise’ which denies a much older civilization which preceded the accepted narrative (i.e. the ancients behind the ‘megalithic structures’ on multiple continents) and which looks at ancient history through a straw (i.e. Egyptology).
Yeah.
Maybe some of those disenfranchised voters, from that "mega-city", still voted in the last election!
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