So much has been lost...
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North America once had cities of pyramids, plazas, and observatories.
We plowed them under for farmland, paved them for highways, and built suburbs on top.
Then we had the audacity to call them a mystery.
We live on top of ruins we pretend not to see.
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I live in SE NC and my grandma used to tell use stories about mounds in our neighborhood and how they would always find relics like little statues and pottery. They used the dirt from the mounds to fill in marsh to build beach houses on and I always think about what was lost when visiting that area.
Due to the tragedy of disease, the De Soto expedition was the first AND last European contact to see this culture more or less intact.
I’ve read about De Soto noted how impressive and numerous these cities were.
These maps are good to have together.
