or? Medicine wheel?
Posted on 11/29/2010 8:19:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Today we travel to southern Illinois, where just across the Mississippi River is located the Cahokia Archaeological Zone. Cahokia was the largest known Native American city north of Mexico. At its peak population around 1250 AD, it was larger that London, England. Of course, Cahokia was not its real name. No one knows its real name. Unlike the ancient towns in the Southeast, where direct descendants of the original occupants still live, no one even knows yet what happened to the population of Cahokia, after it was abandoned.
There was an indigenous village in the vicinity of Cahokia as early as 600 AD. Around 800 AD, newcomers arrived and introduced large scale agriculture and different styles of artifacts. They built few mounds. The mounds they did build were relatively small. The village was also rather modest in size until around 1100 AD, when the population exploded. The original village was razed and a new grand plaza was constructed nearby that included the beginnings of many new, large mounds.
During the 1980s archaeologists working at Cahokia discovered a circle of postholes some distance away from the main acropolis. The postholes were far too spread apart to be a ruins of a building. The archaeologists eventually decided that the posts functioned as a solar observatory . . . a sun dial. Since the circle of posts seemed have the function as Stonehenge in England, it was labeled "Wood-henge."
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Breaking out of the Queen Mary is one of those rites of passage that everyone has to do when they’re young. Wait, what?
Thanks.
Dipping Gourd... is that a representation of Ursa Major?
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More or less ~ this was a huge territory to cover ~
Damn..... The same thing happened to me except I didn’t see the sign and missed out.
I’ll pay closer attention next time
or? Medicine wheel?
That certainly does look pagan.
I don’t know what is such a big deal here. There are seasons, people needed to keep track of them. They built devices to do this. Animals have been suspected of using the stars to navigate although I don’t know if it’s ever been proven. People built devices long ago to track the stars and everyone thinks it’s some kind of shocking discovery.
This guy is directionally impaired. Across the Mississippi from Southern Illinois is Missouri. But of course, Cahokia is in Illinois.
Just one more place we've closed down. We were asked to please pay for our stuff & leave the gift shop at House on the Rock, after 7+ hours of touring ALL of the exhibits; the gift shop had ‘closed’ 15 minutes earlier.
We paid & left the Spam Museum, as the doors were locked behind us. Same with the gift shops at Luray Caverns, VA, and Ruby Falls Cave, TN. The NASA Space Museum, Cape Canaveral. Corning Glass Museum, NY. Fort Laramie. Fossil Butte Nat. Mon., WY; several others less memorable. Once, I think we even closed an all night diner! ;-)
These places need to either stay open later, or not have all those placards to read about the exhibits! Or, be like the Bill Cody Museum Complex in Cody, WY, and give you TWO days/ticket to see it.
If we ever get to The Smithsonian, I'm taking camping equipment and enough food for a couple of weeks...and that'll just be the scouting trip! *<];-’)
House on the Rock sounds like fun, some friends of mine went there years ago.
It is great! Just plan, like we did, on being first in, last out! Literally miles of corridors & rooms of exhibits.
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