Cahokia Mounds and Dioramas (2 Viewers)

[Terp152]

Visited friends east of St Louis last weekend. Went to see the Cahokia Mounds State Park and museum. This was a Mississippian Indian village from about 1100-1200 AD and had about 10,000-20,000 inhabitants. They built a series of huge mounds for burial and ceremonial purposes. The museum has an impressive life sized recreated village and a really nice diorama of the four seasons activity, 1:72 scale I think. Very well done and reminds me of the village scene created by Ken Olsen for the Alabama Natural History Museum a few yrs ago. Chris

Pictures of the state park and mounds: https://images.search.yahoo.com/sea...VjA3Nj?p=cahokia+mounds+state+park&fr=yfp-t-s
Life sized dio:






1:72

 

[Terp152]

One more.

 

[marco55]

Fantastic dios,thanks for the pics.
Mark

 

[Go for Broke]

I'm always amazed at ancient people being able to build huge earthen mounds and precision made pyramids with hand tools.

 

[Larry Allen]

I'm always amazed at ancient people being able to build huge earthen mounds and precision made pyramids with hand tools.

Aliens for space helped ... {sm3}

Okay, only joking, but on does wonder how they accomplished just incredible feats of engineering and design.:rolleyes2:

That is one wonderful museum and display. Thanks very much for sharing

--- LaRRy

 

[Terp152]

Last photo. You can see the working of a dugout and another tree ready to begin. Chris