No, there’s no indication of population dropping in that article, only the dissolution of a city. I’m not read up on Cahokia, but it’s probably more similar to

No, there’s no indication of population dropping in that article, only the dissolution of a city. I’m not read up on Cahokia, but it’s probably more similar to the dissolution/dispersal of the (lowland) Maya vs something like a mass die off. Pre contact population centers were additionally in Mesoamérica & northern South America, where most of the total post contact population drop occurred.