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Cahokia - Monk's Mound
Trip No.2 Entry No.8 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cahokia - Monk's Mound submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. The twin mounds of Fox and Roundtop can be seen over the south west "lip" on the lower platform of Monk's Mound. At one time there was a small building here.
bat400. 23 June 2007.
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Cahokia - Mound 36
Trip No.2 Date Added: 9th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
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Cahokia - Mound 42
Trip No.2 Date Added: 9th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2007
Cahokia - Mound 42 submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. Mound 42 was a platform mound directly west of Monk's Mound. Originally there was a smaller, oval second platform on its SW corner. Beyond this well-preserved mound you can make out a low mound partially blocking the view of the Woodhenge reconstruction (where the cars are parked.)
Looming up on the horizon is the East St Louis landfill, a modern testiment to our never ending consumption.
bat400. 23 June 2007.
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Cahokia - Mound 48
Trip No.2 Date Added: 9th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
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Cahokia - Mound 5.
Trip No.2 Entry No.12 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Cahokia - Mound 5 submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. Mound 5 appears in the background. I am standing next to the stockade reconstruction. An Earthwatch dig was going on in a trench across the path of the stockade, although no one was working that day.
bat400. 23 June 2007.
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Cahokia - Mound 55
Trip No.2 Entry No.3 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 4th Aug 2007. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cahokia - Mound 55 submitted by bat400 on 4th Aug 2007. Cahokia - Mound 55. One of the smallest mounds at Cahokia that was shaped into a flat topped pyramid shape. Monk's Mound can be seen behind Mound 55. Photo by bat400, June 2007.
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Cahokia - Mound 59
Trip No.2 Entry No.5 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 4th Aug 2007. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cahokia - Mound 59 submitted by bat400 on 4th Aug 2007. Cahokia - Mound 59, Illinois. Also called "Roundtop" Mound. Photo by bat400, June 2007.
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Cahokia - Mound 60
Trip No.2 Entry No.6 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2007. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cahokia - Mound 60 submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. Fox Mound (Mound 60) and Roundtop Mound (Mound 59). These "Twin Mounds" are located at the southern edge of the huge central plaza bounded by Monk's Mound on the north. The view is from Monk's Mound.
bat400. 23 June 2007.
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Cahokia - Mound 66
Trip No.2 Entry No.10 Date Added: 30th May 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Jul 2008. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2
Log Text: From aerial photos this is one of the larger mounds at Cahokia. And although it is not on an easily accessible footpath, it can be seen from Forest Blvd., south of the modern Cahokia park. It lies at the southern boundary of the city proper and is 430' by 170' (east-west by north-south) and 25-30 feet high.
In the early 1900's a raised road or causway could be seen extending north from this mound toward the central area of Cahokia. The causeway was more recently confirm by Lidar imaging.
The mound was excavated in the 1920's and a great unfilled trench through the mound can still be seen. This excavation was performed because it appeared that expansion by the nearby rail road was scheduled to completely level the mound. This did not occur.
The mound had been used for burials: both the ancient people of Cahokia and the more recent French colonists.
Cahokia - Mound 72
Trip No.2 Entry No.4 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 4th Aug 2007. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cahokia - Mound 72 submitted by bat400 on 4th Aug 2007. Cahokia - Mound 72. This burial mound was originally described as a rectangular mound with a sharp ridge running down its center. The shape now is the result of several excavations that took place before the 1960's. The contour of that last dig has been recreated. Photo by bat400, June 2007.
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Cahokia - Mounds 30 and 31
Trip No.2 Date Added: 9th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
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Cahokia - Museum
Trip No.2 Entry No.2 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 4th Aug 2007. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Cahokia - Museum submitted by bat400 on 4th Aug 2007. Cahokia - Visitor's Center and Museum, Illinois. When the center was built the post holes and building footprints of multiple small houses were revealed and completely excavated. The size and orientation of these homes has been recorded in a painted image on the paved areas around the building. Inside the museum several buildings' footprints have been incorporated into the museum displays. Photo by bat400, July 2007.
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Cahokia - Powell Mound
Trip No.2 Date Added: 9th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2008. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 1 Access 5
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Cahokia - Stockade
Trip No.2 Entry No.7 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2007. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 4
Cahokia - Stockade submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. View of the stockade reconstruction from the top platform of Monk's Mound. We are looking east toward modern Collinsville. It's difficult to see with the overcast light, but there are the faint undulations of multiple mounds in the field beyond the stockade line. The stockade reconstruction is built on the original location. Two open archaeological units are part of summer digs.
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Cahokia - Woodhenge
Trip No.2 Entry No.9 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Timber Circle
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 4th Aug 2007. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 4
Cahokia - Woodhenge submitted by bat400 on 4th Aug 2007. Cahokia - Woodhenge, Illinois. A central cedar post stood within the circle of 44 posts. Photo by bat400, June 2007.
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Canyon de Chelly - Mummy Cave
Date Added: 28th Feb 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Jun 2004. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Canyon de Chelly - Mummy Cave Ruin submitted by bat400 on 10th Sep 2006. Canyon de Chelly - Mummy Cave Ruins, Apache County, Arizona.
I thought this was the most amazing site we could see from the canyon rim. This photo was taken from a vantage point west of the ruin.
Photo by bat400, June 2003.
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Log Text: I saw the ruin from an overlook to the west. You may only approach the ruins with a Navajo guide. There is no access directly into the ruins themselves.
Canyon de Chelly - White House
Date Added: 17th Feb 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 0000. My rating: Condition 2
Canyon de Chelly - White House submitted by bat400 on 10th Sep 2006. Canyon de Chelly - White House Ruins, Apache County, Arizona.
This Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi) ruin was built and occupied between 1060 and 1275 AD. The photo is taken from the canyon rim opposite the site, but there is a trail that leads to the ruin.
Photo by bat400, June 2003.
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Caral
Date Added: 6th Nov 2018
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Peru
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Caral submitted by sophs74 on 22nd Aug 2011. Archaeologists lunch break at Caral, Peru
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Log Text: A wonderful and astonishing place. Caral is surrounded by hills on all sides; the entry to the site is generally along the Supe River coming from the coast and the Pan-American highway. For late August we were very lucky as the dense coastal overcast broke the afternoon we were there and held off until the sun began to set. Once away from the river valley itself the Peruvean coast is arid and the pyramids of Caral exist in this stark landscape.
Walkways and signage (with substantial English translations from the Spanish) are what a western tourist would expect, although trained local guides are provided, and I believe, required. The tourist route is a circuit of the ceremonial plaza surrounded by the stepped pyramids. At each pyramid there is a sign displaying major artifact finds at that building. You cannot climb up into the structures.
I am uncertain whether one can walk into the western portion of the site, where most residential complexes were built (but these would be generally much less interesting, I would think.)
There is an open air museum near the parking area / site entrance with artifacts and replicas in cases and many displays explaining Caral and what is known about its culture.
We visited Caral as part of a 9 day tour of archaeological sites in Northern Peru through WH Tours. Ask me about them - they are great.
Casa Grande - The Great House
Date Added: 13th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Palace
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Casa Grande - The Great House submitted by AlexHunger on 25th Mar 2005. Casa Grande
Coolidge, Arizona on Ruins Drive.
As seen from South. Hohkam Culture. Inhabited ca 100 to 1300 CE. Discovered 1694 CE by Spanish Priest. Thought to be abandoned due to climate change. Made of "Caliche" dried mud. Very fragile, therefore protected by roof.
N32.99426, W111.53780, Elevation 4e27 Meters.
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Casa Grande - Village
Date Added: 13th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Casa Grande - Village submitted by AlexHunger on 25th Mar 2005. Casa Grande
Coolidge, Arizona on Ruins Drive.
Side House 1 West of main house. about 1 Meters high. Hohkam Culture. Inhabited ca 1,000 to 1,300 CE. Discovered 1,694 CE by Spanish Priest. Thought to be abandoned due to climate change. Made of "Caliche" dried mud. N32.99452, W111.53743, Elevation 427 Meters.
There are about 40 platform mounds in the Phoenix/Tucson area. Further north there are cliff dwelings, belonging to a different culture.
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