Cahokia - America's lost city

[Heddwen]

Just picked up this magazine in a waiting room and learnt something new. This place sounds awesome with its mounds, woodhenge and archeological artefacts in all in Illinois.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/ ... odges-text

[Art]

You may find it interesting to read about Poverty Point, Louisiana or Marksville, Louisiana, or Emerald Mound, Mississippi, or any of a thousand other sites most of which have been plowed under and/or intentionally erased from the face of the earth. You may find the book, "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by Charles Mann well worth reading. Most of all I think these histories serve as stark witness to the destructive power of unbridled greed and what happens when we (any we) forget the past and opt to remake the world in our own image. The desecration evidenced at these sites should stand as a lesson for folks everywhere. Don't let the folks with backhoes and asphalt erase your past...there is a price to pay.

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

http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/n ... erald.html

http://mdah.state.ms.us/hprop/gvni.html

[Heddwen]

Thanks Art, these places must have been immense. Wise words too.

[Aitrus]

America is covered with ghost towns, abandoned villages or native campgrounds and ancient campsites. I love visiting these old places and paying homage to the ancestors there. Libraries, histories and museums are the best places to find sources for these sites.

I'll usually take my metal detector as well. I ask permission from the spirits of the place if it's ok for me to search the grounds for things to donate to museums or to return to their ancestors as a way to remember them and their memory. Most of the time I get permission, but sometimes I run across an old hermit's cabin who's spirit appreciates the sentiment, but just wants to be left in peace.