Posted by KEH on April 09, 2017 at 15:37:56 from (64.53.75.200):
In Reply to: Day off near St Louis posted by jon f mn on April 08, 2017 at 06:55:08:
Cahokia Indian mound East of St Louis is very interesting. It is the largest earth structure in North America, unless there is something in Mexico or Central America. You will have to Google Map it, I have been there twice but can't give directions to it. No one knows how the civilization that was there ended, but the European settlers{us} didn't have anything to do with it. The inhabitants left before European settlement. They discovered that at the city's peak, they put a 20,000 tree log stockade around it. Imagine the hand labor necessary to cut and transport, then erect those large logs. I suggest that they were spending as much of their resources on defense, percentage wise, as we do today. We walked up the 200 foot high mound. Not too far off there is a large landfill mound. The thought occurred that I wondered what future archaeologists would think of the 2 large mounds near each other.
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