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The US' lost, ancient megacity
[BBC] In the ancient Mississippian settlement of Cahokia, vast social events – not trade or the economy – were the founding principle.

Pity the event planners tasked with managing Cahokia's wildest parties. A thousand years ago, the Mississippian settlement – on a site near the modern US city of St Louis, Missouri – was renowned for bashes that went on for days.
Posted by: Skidmark 2021-12-30
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=621235