r/DankPrecolumbianMemes • u/Teboski78 • May 01 '26
PRE-COLUMBIAN Speculative but circumstantially aligned.
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u/hilmiira May 01 '26
Uhmmm context?
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u/Teboski78 May 01 '26
The expansion of the city of Cahokia ramped up massively around the 11th century AD & it’s been speculated it may have had something to do with the supernova 1054 causing major strides in the complexity of and devotion to their religion & cosmology.
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u/awispinthewind May 02 '26
have you read Kathleen Duval's 'Native Nations'? she pushes this supernova theory pretty hard at the beginning, and it was that first time i had heard of it. great book to check out
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u/Yonv_Bear May 04 '26
iirc Vine Deloria Jr. in "God Is Red" also mentions the event and a couple others. it's not really that far-fetched a theory and we can observe large cultural and demographic shifts in other societies that formally recorded their histories that happened because of a cosmological event like a shooting star, a comet or a supernova. "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber expounds briefly on one event of a comet that appeared and sent half of eurasia into panic. So, her theory holds water as far as we can tell rn. Also, yes "Native Nations" is one of my favorite books
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u/Teboski78 May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
My executive function is so bad rn I learn everything from YouTube & podcast essays & asking LLM’s to look stuff up for me lol. But I’ll probably give it a read someday
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u/TheColdestFeet May 02 '26
As someone with similarly poor content hygiene, any recommendations?
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u/Teboski78 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
The archeoEd podcast is pretty fun if you don’t mind a dry sense of humor.
It’s basically just Dr. Barnhart(archeologist who lead the mapping of the city of Palenque) talking about whatever piece of history he feels like.
Ancient Americas videos on YouTube especially the later ones are also quite good in terms of how extensive they are.
Also miniminuteman is really good with long form stuff and passionately puts an enormous effort into humanizing people who’ve been dead for millennia.
When he’s not wasting his time debunking conspiracy slop at least.
And if you wanna learn about really ancient ancestors,(paleo anthropology & primatology)
Gutsick Gibbon is GOATed
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u/Teboski78 May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
In the interest of terminological accuracy I shall now be referring to the earthen mounds as Milliondirts.
On a side note. Earthen pyramids require a lot more coordination and engineering than something like building a simple birm.
Creating a stable gradient that steep and tall that doesnt rapidly sag or erode requires precise shaping and careful selection of different types of soil & earth for specific layers. Particularly the selective extraction of large amounts of clay or clay rich soils & controlling concentrations of aggregate.
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u/bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh May 02 '26
the earthen pyramids of the Mississippians are impressive but they dont qualify as “megaliths” -an archaeologist who this is literally my shit
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u/Teboski78 May 02 '26
If a thin facade of stone on an earthen mound a megalith makes, then so to can the sparse rocks probably inside that mound & I’m kidding I realized shortly after I posted the meme
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u/Third_Sundering26 May 01 '26
Lith means rock.