Mystery of America's Huge Ancient City

[averagejoe]

Interesting story:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015 ... ssissippi/

New Evidence May Solve Mystery of America's Huge Ancient City

Mississippi floods shaped the rise and fall of the prehistoric metropolis known as Cahokia.

[averagejoe]

If you look close at the drawing, you can see mounds of dirt. These could be ancient burial sites call Kurgans which are very numerous in the Black Sea area. If they opened them up, they would find out who these people were. These are the ones found in America.

[averagejoe]

These are Kurgans from the Black Sea area. They were Sacred burial sites of Chieftains and Kings of Ancient Europeans called Scythians.

The earliest kurgans appeared in the 4th millennium BC in the Caucasus,[2] and are associated with the Indo-Europeans.[3] Kurgans were built in the Eneolithic, Bronze, Iron, Antiquity and Middle Ages, with old traditions still active in Southern Siberia and Central Asia. Kurgan cultures are divided archeologically into different sub-cultures, such as Timber Grave, Pit Grave, Scythian, Sarmatian, Hunnish and Kuman-Kipchak.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurgan

[The Green Barbarian]

removed. why derail a great thread?

[Fancy]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/na ... ahokia.htm
Mound #72 apparently was a burial site.

[Bsuds]

Interesting read...thanks.

[ferri]

Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear have written several books about Native Life, she is an archeologist, they go on digs and look at the objects, find out what the tribes beliefs, diets, etc. were and then write amazing books. they wrote one about Cahokia. :D "People of the Morning Star: A Novel of North America's Forgotten Past" i love their books and this one was really good. just thought i'd throw that out there. lol

[The Green Barbarian]

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