Our Mountains Are Made By Hand: North American Mounds as World Heritage

A millennium ago, Native people constructed over 120 earthen mounds at the site of Cahokia, a World Heritage site in Illinois. Built entirely by hand, the largest of these constructions towered 100 feet over a city that was more densely populated than the contemporary medieval city of London. Over two thousand years before Cahokia’s construction, Native people in Louisiana built Poverty Point, another World Heritage site, and one of the only earthwork complexes that rivals Cahokia’s size and complexity--and they did so without agriculture or permanent settlements. These sites highlight the incredible engineering ability of ancient Americans, and remind us that we don’t need a passport to visit sites of outstanding universal value.
Speaker: Megan C. Kassabaum, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UPenn

[@aaronnicholson588]

Audio is a little low, the content is 👍🏻

[@joehaas3322]

Such an interesting lecture, I just wish I could hear more of it since the volume seems to have been turned down to 5% before the video was posted. Please in the future check these basic things before posting. Thanks

[@FriedPi-mc5yt]

If these structures were in Europe or Asia, they would be listed.

[@normanmadarasz4979]

Spectacular. In complete agreement! Frustrating to have only recently found out there are also mounds on Canadian territory. Not that it should be surprising as such, but only when measured against the immense denial of them by many institutional Euro-historians.

[@TyZaTube]

Great lecture on a interesting subject

[@vecvan]

12:05 can you turn the volume further down, I can still hear you. No, further!

[@LSOP-]

Lecture starts at 2:10

[@Terispeculiar]

You would really like to examine Minnesota for native American mounds, as Minnesota is loaded with the natives and yet it's still in congressional law of Minnesota that the Native American Indian tribes are not allowed in this state

[@aaronmeehan8161]

Densest city in the United States of America right? Sje just said "in america" which isn't clear but i imagine central american and peruvian cities as well as probably others were more densly populated.

[@jtconner7599]

This girl must have thrown a dart at a wall to choose her major

[@muchi1465]

Did you have a video / documentary about Empress Dowager Cixi about half a year ago or did i see it somewhere else?

[@brandonwilson5311]

Horrible audio... It goes from a dentist drill too... I can't hear you and it's still painful to the ear.

[@JJONNYREPP]

Our Mountains Are Made By Hand: North American Mounds as World Heritage 2356pm 12.5.23 considering the amount of data available or evidence... why so long in lectures akin to this getting through to the general public....? the lack of UNESCO sites being listed for north america is quite telling. are they being erased before they can be documented or is this just due to generic disinterest by contemporary america - various other facets of american history being fashionable points of reference as opposed to it's literal ancestral past being of interest? p.s then why doesn't she and her co-horts go and petition the government to put a preservation order on all the known (and soon to be discovered) mounds for posterity...? you seem to have scant desire to preserve the past which is usually a accusation levelled at the Brits...

[@NathanaelFosaaen]

It's just the natural consequence of good old fashioned racism. Having so few recognized heritage sites perpetuates the belief that natives did very little of cultural importance. Spiro should be on the list. Isle Royale should be there. Watson Brake, Windover, the Meadowcroft shelter, Mud Glyph Cave, and I could go on.

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@NathanaelFosaaen Comments on ‘Our Mountains Are Made By Hand: North American Mounds as World Heritage’ 28.5.23 0806am good old fashioned jungle drums etc etc etc... anyhow; same thing happens in Uk and Germany and other eurocentric regions. it isn't just a case of the same old groups gettin' the same old shoddy treatment... the anti white agenda in europe is well to the fore and is in evidence with such things like use and abuse and eradicating of such things as heritage sites such as these.. roads are built through burial mounds, known sites of historical interest are not reported and merely bulldozed to make way for this that and the other etc etc etc... grated a great deal of sites eg: old roman mosaics an temples etc are merely documented and photographed and filmed and filled back in again - due to it being too costly to maintain them.... it's be wonderful to have a heritage centre at every find but i doubt that's gonna happen. though it's still no excuse for their erasing... the asses breakout into song as i write and some sap trespasses on my property ahahaha