From KETC, Living St. Louis Producer Jim Kirchherr travels to Cahokia Mounds in Illinois where budding archeologists are digging to find artifacts from the ancient civilization that once called the area home. Only 1% of the land has been excavated, and current work is performed by Earthwatch volunteers.
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Many mounds in flatlands of South America were made as safety areas from floods. Exploitation of trees led to less supplies for elevated homes, and also less rain absorbed by trees.
Still today in Amazon people are making these. Mountain caps run off into Amazon rivers and flood remote villages. Deforestation = less absorption.
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MachuPicchuTours 1 year ago
Grave robbers used to be killed on the spot.
Things change.
Bobby...
palonejr 2 years ago
My dream apprentices and myself have dreamwalked on the mound in the past and there were openings like a cave inside the mound that the first people who built the mound, later houses were built around the outside.
DeathShamans 2 years ago
I grew up in Loisel Village, about 5 miles south of Cahokia Mound. When I was a child in the early 60's, they were still building homes in a field behind our house, just nw of Loisel Village Shopping Center and we would pick out rather large pieces of pottery and arrowheads and things like that.
osothegato 3 years ago