That theory about Cahokia being a small settlement... I think we got it backwards

I was at the Mound 72 excavation in Illinois back in 2012, and we found a wooden post circle that sat right at the edge of the main plaza. A supervisor said it was just a fence, but I pushed to isotope-test the soil around it, and it turned out to be a marker for solstice alignments. Has anyone else run into pros dismissing site features before looking at the data?

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barbararamirez3d ago

What did the isotope ratios actually show?

wyatta302d ago

Read that study from Berkeley that said it was way more local than they expected.