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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Cahokia - Mound 72Country: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: East St. Louis, IL Nearest Village: Collinsville, IL
Latitude: 38.651190N Longitude: 90.063694W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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bat400 visited on 4th Aug 2007 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Ahdzib have visited here
The burials include an older man resting on a bed of 20,000 marine shell beads. He is accompanied by a variety of other grave goods, including caches of finely work arrowheads that were arranged in groups, each cache made from different materials (and apparently) and by different craftsmen. Grimly, the mound also included over 4 dozen apparent sacrifices - large groups of young women, and young men with heads and hands removed.
Unlike almost all Cahokia mounds (aligned on the cardinal directions) Mound 72 is 30 degrees north of east on its long axis.
The mound was not completely excavated so other burials are likely. The contour has been recreated. The museum features a depiction of the older man's burial.
Note: Strontium analysis of Human Sacrifice victims' teeth from Cahokia shows they were locals, not ‘foreign’ Captives, see the most recent comment on our page
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