rocks-n-bones: quidquid: Most people don’t think of North America as having cool archaeology, but MOUNDS, my friends, MOUNDS. they are cool. This is “Monks Mound,” at a Mississippian site in Illinois called Cahokia.  It is over 10 stories tall and is the largest pre-Colombian structure north of Mexico.  Unlike other mounds this was a temple mound, not a burial mound.  There was probably some sort of structure on the top level. Dates to around 1150 CE…maybe? No cool NA archaeology?  Where has this person been?

rocks-n-bones:

quidquid:

Most people don’t think of North America as having cool archaeology, but MOUNDS, my friends, MOUNDS. they are cool.

This is “Monks Mound,” at a Mississippian site in Illinois called Cahokia.  It is over 10 stories tall and is the largest pre-Colombian structure north of Mexico.  Unlike other mounds this was a temple mound, not a burial mound.  There was probably some sort of structure on the top level. Dates to around 1150 CE…maybe?

No cool NA archaeology?  Where has this person been?

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Source: quidquid
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