Popular Post Still Waters Posted February 24, 2017 Popular Post #1 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Larger than London or Paris in its time, what is now America’s heartland had a magnificent city between 1030 and 1200 CE. Now known as Cahokia, the city occupied the wide floodplain where the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers meet, near present-day St. Louis. Like traditional capital cities around the world, Cahokia displayed monumental architecture, making it an awesome theater of power. In its center was (and still is) a mound larger than the Egyptians’ pyramids at Giza, a mound nearly as huge as the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan or the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in Mexico. Its flat top towering 100 feet high covers more than a football field, its base measures 1,000 feet by 700 feet. In front stretches the Grand Plaza, which measures 1,000 feet by 1,300 feet, and is made perfectly flat by filling in gullies and layering special soil over the whole. At the far end and along the sides rise more mounds, 70 feet high. All were capped with colored clays––blue, white, or black. https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/history/traditional-societies/cahokia-americas-great-city/ 14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted April 4, 2018 #2 Share Posted April 4, 2018 The greatest North American civilization known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted April 5, 2018 #3 Share Posted April 5, 2018 23 hours ago, Myles said: The greatest North American civilization known. Not true. The Hopewell Manifestation was. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted April 5, 2018 #4 Share Posted April 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Piney said: Not true. The Hopewell Manifestation was. I disagree. They were mostly separated from one another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted April 5, 2018 #5 Share Posted April 5, 2018 2 minutes ago, Myles said: I disagree. They were mostly separated from one another. Beacause we learned our lesson on resource management and spread it out, but the technology and artistic level was higher. The forests were big game parks and fruit and nut groves. Not "wilderness". 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaden Posted April 21, 2018 #6 Share Posted April 21, 2018 Visited a few years ago with my wife and our grandson, I was somewhat shocked to learn that only 1% of the site has been excavated. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qxcontinuum Posted April 22, 2018 #7 Share Posted April 22, 2018 (edited) Wondering how many thousand kids and women were sacrificed in barnlbsric rituals of so called great advanced N. American civilization? They wiped themselves out in their greatness. Edited April 22, 2018 by qxcontinuum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted April 24, 2018 #8 Share Posted April 24, 2018 On 4/21/2018 at 10:00 PM, qxcontinuum said: Wondering how many thousand kids and women were sacrificed in barnlbsric rituals of so called great advanced N. American civilization? They wiped themselves out in their greatness. http://westerndigs.org/victims-of-human-sacrifice-at-cahokia-were-locals-not-captives-study-finds/ Probably the origins of the Pawnee "Morning Star Ceremony". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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