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Why Did Cahokia, One of North America’s Largest Pre-Hispanic Cities, Collapse?
- bediger4000 5y agoIf you find yourself near St Louis, it's well worth your time to visit Cahokia Mounds. It was the Original St Louis, after all. There's also 1 remaining mound on the Missouri side of the Mississippi. Just don't ask the Cahokia Mounds people if Atlanteans built them.
- meristohm 5y ago“That’s a Western mentality of resource exploitation—squeeze everything out of it that you can,” she explains. “[But] that’s not how it was in these Indigenous cultures.” -Caitlin Rankin From studying coprastanol, from human poop, it sounds like the decline was slow, onto the 1500s.