Can the decline of Cahokia offer lessons about withstanding modern American drought?
. According to the geochemical record, the Mississippi river floodplain began to dry out during the “Little Ice Age” that cooled the earth from the 14th century until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.. “If there’s any place in North America where humans had a discernible impact on the environment in prehistory, this is it,” he says. A second discolored layer is visible at the top of the sediment core.
Drought does not pose an existential risk to the state’s civilization as it once did to the Missippians, but the decline of Cahokia may still be a useful allegory elsewhere in the country. Drought is likely tothroughout southern states in the near future. While states in the Southwest have, to some extent, adapted their infrastructure to drought conditions already, parts of the Southeast remain woefully underprepared.
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