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New book on Greater Cahokia, a town of 10,000 and 30,000 (A.D. 1050-1200) underneath modern St Louis, Illinois. The article politely fails to mention it walls and defensive bastions of course.
phys.org/news/2019-01-r…
Rather poor reconstruction of the town, the defensive works would have been plastered in clay (fire proofed) and painted red. Similar cities of the era were described by Spanish travelers as having impressive straight walls with perfect plastering in shining white or ochra.
Native Americans prior to 1492 built some great defensive infrastructure including walls and forts and fought countless wars over borders and territory. To deny this is terribly unfair, akin to boldly claiming that Native Americans had no culture before they met Europeans.
One of the biggest independent states in North America until the 1860s was the Comanche Empire, Comancheria, in constant war with almost every other Empire on the continent. Scott Alexander wrote a book review on them which is worth a read. archive.is/EYtIu
And here we go. @Newsweek is peddling fake news again. It only took them a couple of hours after the Press Release to make this fraudulent headline.
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