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Giant Ancient Wooden Post Dates Cahokia's Peak Power

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Giant Ancient Wooden Post Dates Cahokia’s Peak Power

View of Cahokia's Monk Mound with inset the Mitchell Log.

Scientists have successfully dated a massive wooden marker post from ancient Cahokia, determining it was felled around 1124 AD – precisely during the peak of this remarkable North American city’s political and economic influence. The discovery provides unprecedented insight into the timeline of monumental construction and the vast reach of Cahokia’s material networks during the height of the Mississippian culture. Using advanced tree-ring radiocarbon dating and strontium isotope analysis, researchers determined that the bald cypress post was transported at least 110 miles (180 kilometers) to the Mitchell site, located 6 miles (10 km) north of the main Cahokia precinct.

The Mitchell Log, as it is known, represents the largest marker post ever discovered in the Cahokia region. Today only a 12 ft (3.5-meter) basal remnant weighing approximately one metric ton survives, but the original pole likely stood 60 foot (18 meters) tall and weighed between four and five metric tons, according to research published in PLOS One. Dr. Nicholas Kessler and his colleagues employed cutting-edge techniques to establish that the tree was approximately 194 years old when it was felled. The post was discovered in 1961 in the central plaza of the Mitchell site, abandoned in a ramp of the 13 feet (4 meter) deep post pit after it had apparently broken off during an extraction process.

Gary Manners

www.Ancient-Origins.net – Reconstructing the story of humanity’s past


Source: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/cahokia-wooden-post-00102265



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