Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $81,787
100%
Woo hoo!! OVER THE TOP!! Congratulations everyone!! God bless.

Keyword: asherelbein

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • What Doomed the Great City of Cahokia? Not Ecological Hubris, Study Says

    04/24/2021 8:58:42 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 43 replies
    NYT ^ | April 24, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET | Asher Elbein
    Excavations at the city, famous for its pre-Columbian mounds, challenge the idea that residents destroyed the city through wood clearing. A thousand years ago, a city rose on the banks of the Mississippi River, near what eventually became the city of St. Louis. Sprawling over miles of rich farms, public plazas and earthen mounds, the city — known today as Cahokia — was a thriving hub of immigrants, lavish feasting and religious ceremony. At its peak in the 1100s, Cahokia housed 20,000 people, greater than contemporaneous Paris. By 1350, Cahokia had largely been abandoned, and why people left the city...