Ancient poop helps show climate change contributed to fall of Cahokia

University of Wisconsin - Madison ^ | February 26, 2019 | By Kelly April Tyrrell

[dfwgator]

Dubious? How about complete BS!

[litehaus]

The Cahokia people had/LEFT no WRITTEN RECORDS just as sub-saharan Africans?

[litehaus]

“I had a suspicion about the Cahokia population and their travels..”

No written books, AND NO Appian Way either, shucks..just plain behind the times huh?

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. This is interesting, although I think it was done in isolation from the rest of global weather patterns.

[zot]

Thanks for your comment about the Vikings at post 38.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.

• Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges [2018]
• Lake Sediments Record Climate Change At Cahokia [2017]
• Lost cities #8: mystery of Cahokia - why did North America's largest city vanish? [2016]
• America's Largest Earthwork, Cahokia's Monks Mound, May Have Been Built in Only 20 Years, Study Says [2015]
• Did a Mega-Flood Doom Ancient American City of Cahokia? [2014]
• The First US City Was Full of Immigrants [2014]
• Infamous Mass Grave of Young Women in Ancient City of Cahokia Also Holds Men: Study [2014]
• Infamous Mass Grave of Young Women in Ancient City of Cahokia Also Holds Men: Study [2014]
• Epic Fire Marked 'Beginning of the End' for Ancient Culture of Cahokia, New Digs Suggest [2014]
• Cahokia assistant teacher charged with sexual contact, transmitting HIV to teen [2013]
• Researchers find evidence of ritual use of 'black drink' at Cahokia [2012]
• Science explains ancient copper artifacts [2011]
• America's Forgotten City [2010]
• Cahokia's Woodhenge: a supprising implication [sic] [2010]
• Copper men: Archaeologists uncover Stone Age copper workshop near Monk's Mound [2010]
• Human sacrifice! Archaeologist creates stir with new book on Cahokia Mounds [2009]
• Much Still To Be Learned About Cahokia Mounds [2008]
• Swansea woman donates birdman tablet to Mounds[Illinois] [2007]
• Birdman Tablet Discovered during Excavations at the East Lobe of Monks Mound [1971] [2006]
• The Lost City of Cahokia [2006]
• New technique helps solve mystery of ancient figurines (Cahokia) [2003]
• Ancient Illinois Village Unearths Lode Of Questions [2002]
• A Stone Pyramid At Cahokia, Illinois [2002]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fieldmarshaldj. Modern poop is the only concern most of the time.

[mass55th]

I’m surprised they haven’t blamed climate change for the fall of the Roman Empire yet.

[colorado tanker]

They won’t do that. The fall of Rome and the Dark Ages coincided with a cool cycle, which are generally not friendly to human civilization. But that would be contrary to the narrative that warm is bad.