[Tainan]

More on Cahokia.

Nice pics. Thank Blue Moose.

[humblegunner]

That was interesting.

[Wage Slave]

Interesting, thanks for posting. Road trip!

[Recon Dad]

Not to be sacrilegious but this place would make a great golf course.

[Miss Conservative]

Later read.

[huldah1776]

“Making the story even more interesting was the clear evidence of ritual human sacrifice.”

There goes the neighborhood.

[BfloGuy]

Wow! And now it's gone.

Sort of an Indian Detroit.

[Betis70]

It is a very interesting place, not only for the archaeology, but as the author points out, how completely ignored it was by academics for so long.

And contrary to what he suggests, you can learn an awful lot about a culture from their pottery. Not anyplace close to a complete picture, but better than a plaque that says “Big Mound was here”.

[ThanhPhero]

The city grew to prominence during an especially favorable climate phase and began shrinking around the time the climate became cooler, drier, and less predictable.

This sort of thing has happened before. It is only in leftist minds that climate is a constant.

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[Lurker]

They'll be whining about Winfield Mounds next.

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[colorado tanker]

"You know what they say," says Bill Iseminger, an archaeologist who has worked at Cahokia for 40 years. "Put three archaeologists in a room and you get five opinions."

Nice line.

This area is very near the New Madrid fault. Just a thought.