Join us on a cinematic journey across Illinois where earthworks, burial mounds, carved cliffs, and submerged sites keep secrets science still can’t fully explain. In this documentary-style deep dive we investigate Cahokia’s monumental mounds and plazas, stratified long-term sites like Koster, mysterious cliff images such as the Piasa, Pleistocene mastodons and human encounters, Hopewell-era trade networks of copper and shell, and contested museum histories and repatriation. Expect close readings of archaeological evidence (radiocarbon, tree-rings, isotopes), careful discussion of competing hypotheses, and vivid scene-setting that helps you picture ancient people moving on rivers and building ritual landscapes.
What you’ll find in this video:
• Cahokia’s mounds and plazas — scale, dates, and the debate about political organization and decline.
• Koster and deep time occupation — long stratified sequences revealing millennia of adaptation.
• Hopewell Interaction Sphere — continent-spanning exchange of copper, shells, mica and ideas.
• Piasa and cliff images — how landscape art stores memory, myth and meaning.
• Mastodon/mammoth finds and human–megafauna questions.
• Museum history, ethics, repatriation, and how living oral traditions reshape interpretation.
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