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Spotted a weird stone pattern at the Cahokia Mounds visitor center
Was there last weekend and noticed a small, off-center circle of flat stones near the base of Monks Mound that wasn't on the main map. A guide said it was flagged by a grad student last fall and they think it might be a post pit from a structure older than the main plaza. Anyone know if they've published anything on that find yet?
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taylorm895d ago
Honestly I'm not buying that it's some big ancient discovery. Grad students get excited about EVERYTHING and probably just saw some rocks that fell off a modern walkway. Cahokia has been picked over for decades, if there was something IMPORTANT there they would have found it already.
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grant_cooper5d ago
Yeah you make a good point about grad students getting excited over anything @taylorm89. But here's something nobody's talking about - maybe they found something because they used new tech like ground-penetrating radar that didn't exist when people were digging around there decades ago.
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