SciShow: The Rise and Fall of Cahokia: North America’s First City

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Content of the Lesson: They often don’t get as much attention, but North America had major cities long before European colonizers arrived, but the residents left behind no written history. How have archaeologists pieced together the details of these population centers? Grab your subscription to the Awesome Socks Club before December 11! Go to https://awesomesocks.club/ to learn more! Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Marwan Hassoun, Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://exhibits.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/midewin/palynology.html#:~:text=Because%20of%20their%20very%20small,concentrate%20the%20pollen%20for%20study http://users.clas.ufl.edu/davidson/arch%20of%20death/Week%2007/ambrose%20et%20al%202003.pdf http://www.demographia.com/dm-lon31.htm https://archive.archaeology.org/9901/newsbriefs/monks.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_urban_community_sizes https://experts.illinois.edu/en/publications/immigrants-at-the-mississippian-polity-of-cahokia-strontium-isoto https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10933-018-0033-0#Sec17 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/B:AHUM.0000029398.01906.5e https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1312&context=etd https://www.britannica.com/place/Cahokia-Mounds https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/after-cahokia-indigenous-repopulation-and-depopulation-of-the-horseshoe-lake-watershed-ad-14001900/C678D62BE9FAB07C9283D62BE9757685 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/exploring-new-cahokian-neighborhoods-structure-density-estimates-from-the-spring-lake-tract-cahokia/150B5A3A9286D468910B58586559D19E https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/isotopic-confirmation-of-the-timing-and-intensity-of-maize-consumption-in-greater-cahokia/18D70835505B14A03E28D7FAB039B665 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2019.00006/full https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cahokia/zDaxApTvh8QC?hl=en&gbpv=1 https://www.nps.gov/teachers/classrooms/archeology-and-magnetometry.htm#:~:text=Magnetometry%2C%20a%20technique%20that%20studies,beneath%20without%20having%20to%20excavate https://www.pnas.org/content/116/12/5461.short https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/112/20/6319.full.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James_Brown35/publication/284722716_Surplus_Labor_Ceremonial_Feasting_and_Social_Inequality_at_Cahokia_-_A_Study_in_Social_Process/links/5657680208ae1ef9297bc318/Surplus-Labor-Ceremonial-Feasting-and-Social-Inequality-at-Cahokia-A-Study-in-Social-Process.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Samuel_Munoz/publication/274989751_A_record_of_sustained_prehistoric_and_historic_land_use_from_the_Cahokia_region_Illinois_USA/links/55d5c94608ae9d6594889344.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas_Emerson2/publication/279588421_Strangers_in_Paradise_Recognizing_Ethnic_Mortuary_Diversity_on_the_Fringes_of_Cahokia/links/567c25d808ae051f9ae191cf/Strangers-in-Paradise-Recognizing-Ethnic-Mortuary-Diversity-on-the-Fringes-of-Cahokia.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272309557_Building_Monks_Mound_Cahokia_Illinois _AD_800-1400 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305440314000302?via%3Dihub https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/sea.2013.32.1.002 https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/news/techniques-magnetometry Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conquista-de-Tenochtitlan-Mexico.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tikal_Temple1_2006_08_11.JPG https://bit.ly/3qMaeWy https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/169932.php?from=393327 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monks_Mound_in_July.JPG https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0210369 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/169931.php?from=393327 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/109695.php https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/priu-fla080516.php https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ancient_mexican_corn-molder.JPGSources:


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