Cahokia’s Celestial Calendar (Woodhenge) | Native America | PBS

Official Website: to.pbs.org/2Dd... | #NativeAmericaPBS
Archaeologist Timothy Pauketet and his team work to uncover remains of a celestial calendar at Cahokia. Watch full episodes of Native America at to.pbs.org/2Dd....
This program is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station: www.pbs.org/do...
Subscribe to the PBS channel for more clips: / pbs
Enjoy full episodes of your favorite PBS shows anytime, anywhere with the free PBS Video App: to.pbs.org/2Qb...
Native America explores the world created by America’s First Peoples. The four-part series reaches back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique systems of science and spirituality, and 100 million people connected by social networks spanning two continents. Watch extended interviews, digital-exclusive video & more at to.pbs.org/2Dd...

[@tec-jones5445]

Ah yeah Cahokia! Largest city in North America north of Mexico, with 40,000 people, only beat by Philadelphia in 1800. Mississippian civilization is the best!

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

dude, this is cool 😊

[@SizzleMoonSong]

I believe that is a ceremonial dance ground , many are still used to this day.

[@bergfish7328]

That was interesting. Thanks PBS 👏

[@RunToEternity]

Did they build them at random? Or are they also on ley lines that circumnavigate the globe?

[@chrisr6142]

It's a sundance circle, not a calendar.

[@esti_mvskoke]

Looks like a stickball field to me . The little brother of war is a big deal and probably would have been aligned because of its importance . Just a thought

[@krono5el]

All of it wiped out by some goons

[@RetroAP]

Disease wiped them out 600 years before anyone knew it was even there.

[@Vraptor1]

Retro AP That’s a myth; no serious historian believes that

[@blackcitroenlove]

@@Vraptor1 historian here, it turned out to be climate issues that led to serious flooding. The area was prone to flooding, hence the creation of mounds, but THIS flooding was hard to rebound from. It was Cahokia's Katrina, so to speak. Nobody could have been ready for that kind of massive natural disaster, even as sophisticated as the people there were with meteorology. Dr Pauketat has already proven that to be the case, as have Dhegiha peoples' oral histories.

[@helenbekind8486]

@@blackcitroenlove a hurricane wiped out the mound people? They were in belle glade florida all the way to Ohio. Sounds like a biblical flood to wipe out that large of an area.

[@jeffreybailey1758]

@@blackcitroenlove I grew up in Collinsville and have seen some serious floods over the years. I can easily see how they could have even reached Cahokia Mounds itself.

[@Montblanc1986]

The Cahokia mounds were built with forced labor. The made up upper echelon sacrificed women in great numbers to giant wood posts that were then buried. They also sacrificed women to these rulers when one would die. In one instance 50 women were slaughtered. Not saying other cultures didn't do this too. Why make videos and keep these mound builders famous when it was just a disgusting sad story.

[@d.cummer2652]

You haven’t paid much attention to European history, have you?

[@blackcitroenlove]

Except it wasn't that way. I suggest you show your sources.

[@esti_mvskoke]

The mississippian culture became the mvskoke, cherokee , Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes among others este hvtke came and said native peoples as we know it could not have built them because they were barley better savages. And used boarding schools to make our ancestors believe that there was no written language and many other lies. No different than Rome burning libraries and there is absolutely no evidence that sacrifice was used by our cultures

[@paddlepacker]

Citations, please!