Posted on 07/12/2024 7:16:48 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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It’s Illinois, I blame property taxes.
Around the middle of the 14th century..............Europe was having Black Plagues at the same time...................
The shaman’s union pension fund bankrupted them. The tribe moved to Florida.
The inhabitants of Cahokia left nothing in any writing, at least nothing that has been found. That raises questions about the intellectual means and methods they employed in creating Cahokia. Like how were measures taken? How were successful means and methods transmitted for repeated use? How were their stories told and passed on, orally alone? And many other questions that answers are often found for in other ancient civilizations that had methods of writing.
Though the absense of other evidence makes a connection unlikely, what a coincidence that the Black Death ravaged Europe and Asia in the mid-14th century. Nothing like a plague to make concentrated populations disperse, economies and trade break down, etc.
If the writing or symbolic representations were all done on organic materials it would be hard for anything to survive. For example, the Inca knotted ropes. Only the Mesoamericans seem to have devised a hieroglyphic system that has survived because a few organic codices were kept during the Spanish conquest plus extensive use of carved stone architecture and monuments.
Wouldn’t surprise me.
In other words, a primitive, backwater Paleolithic tribe that was incapable of evolving beyond the Stone Age.
The US Bureau of Land Management is footing the bill for this make-work, pointless slab of pork, because?
The Washington University in St. Louis, no doubt, funneled a nice portion of the BLM grant monies back to the DNC, while
employing a small contingent of rabid Lefties with a paycheck.
(They are to blame for everything else bad that ever happened, so why not this?)
What you postulate may be true and it somewhat goes with how Cahokia was built, which was not with stone (at least not large massive stones) which says something about what natural materials were available around Cahokia. Maybe without a lot of available natural stone formations, “organic” materials would have been used for whatever “records” they kept.
Which takes us back to the Inca and it makes me think others before the Inca built many of the massive stone works that have been attributed to the Inca, as I do not see the knotted cords of the Inca as equal to the task of transmitting the sophisticated methods in building the massiv stone works. I think maybe the Inca inherited them and just took them over. Maybe wh they took them over from were peoples who were there during the last ice age.
Wasn’t this about the time that there was a suspected major volcanic eruption that resulted in colder temperatures and a lot of crop failures? I’m guessing they migrated south.
I know 536 was suspected for that and the Justinean plagues were thought to be inflated due to the resulting malnutrition.
The black plague was in the 14th century in Europe - I wouldn’t be surprised if it had a similar eruption related climate event resulting in failed crops and malnutrition related disease susceptibility as well.
In the 14th century western Europe was a meteorological mess. France was having way too much rain and it was cold. Crops failed again and again. The 1400s reversed all that and things got most excellent again.
But Cahokia apparently didn’t have bad weather or crop failures. I always assumed that they were having a bad time too, but no.
Maybe the population was getting too big for the available hoof protein, and they left for greener pastures.
Like field stone fences, they found or created blocks of varying sizes that could be fitted. They then cut/chipped the stone down to a pretty close fit and applied a thin, special paste mortar when the stones were set. When wet the paste dissolved the last few millimeters of the rough faces of the stone, the paste washed out and the stone fit together with microscopic tolerances.
The close fit of irregular stone made the walls very earthquake resistant. Really freaking clever.
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Their dispersal is apparently what gave us all the different tribes of the US plains and Midwest.................
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