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I couldn’t figure out what was bugging me about the tone of this discussion of just what happened at the Mound Builder city of Cahokia. After all, it’s interesting: there was once a large Native American city located at what is now St. Louis, Missouri; we don’t know that much about it; and it more or less disappeared without any kind of real clues about what happened. This shouldn’t annoy me.
But then I read the last paragraph:
What’s fascinating is that this region along the Mississippi is an area that has been home to many cities, for hundreds of years. After all, St. Louis occupies the old footprint of Cahokia today. Perhaps, in another millennium, the archaeologists who occupy some future city in the area will be uncovering the old breweries and coal mines of St. Louis and wondering what happened to the people who worked in them.