Registered: September 2004 Location: Collinsville IL / St. Louis MO Posts: 3,485 users gallery
I know it looks like a hill of sorts, but this is in my hometown of Collinsville IL. This area is Cahokia Mounds. Just google it and you find out what is so interesting.
In short, Cahokia was first settled around 650 CE during the Late Woodland period, but mound building did not begin there until about 1050 at the beginning of the Mississippian cultural period. The site was abandoned between around 1250 and 1400. The inhabitants left no written records, and the city's original name is unknown. The name "Cahokia" refers to an unrelated clan of Illiniwek people living in the area when the first French explorers arrived in the 1600s, long after Cahokia was abandoned. The Osage, Omaha, Ponca, Quapaw and others are believed to be the descendants of the Mississippians who built the city, but no stories about Cahokia were ever recorded among these tribes.
Registered: April 2007 Location: Saint Louis MetroEast Posts: 144
Sun January 27, 2008 2:38pm
"I see dead people"!!
Nice shot of the Mound's
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