{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Cahokia - Part 5: Echoes on the mounds","description":"The mounds stand silent now, their grassy slopes overlooking a landscape that once pulsed with life. This is the last chapter of Cahokia—the story of decline, transformation, and what remains.\r\n\r\nAs the fourteenth century dawned, the city’s energy faded. Trees crept back into abandoned plazas. The grand mounds, once the heart of ceremony and power, were left to the wind and rain. Beneath the surface, the earth tells the story: pollen grains and charcoal speak of forests cut and burned, soil eroded, and fields no longer fertile.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thecivilizationarchive.com/civilization/cahokia","author_name":"The Archive Network"}