[Red Badger]

Around the middle of the 14th century..............Europe was having Black Plagues at the same time...................

[SunkenCiv]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4250649/posts?page=9#9

[OldGoatCPO]

Depending on the acidity of the soil a plague like event would at least show evidence of a mass grave. However, you may be correct, how much of what we know about these people is conjecture and how much is fact. How did they dispose of waste? How did they dispose of their dead, etc…. Artist renderings don't show garbage, feces animal and human, lying in the streets. Standing pools of water and urine, etc. Gradual dispersing would indicate problems with the site and over time it became uninhabitable. Tons of human and animal waste, mosquitoes, flies and other pests may have been a problem over time.

[Doctor Congo]

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.