Cross Country at Cahokia and Crystal River

Cahokia

Crystal River

Continuing with a tradition of CXCing at archaeological sites, I travelled to two North American mound sites in Illinois and Florida in the past month. Cahokia is the largest pre-European settlement north of Mexico, and may have contained as many at 20,000 people. The largest mound, Monk's Mound, has a footprint the size of the pyramids in Egypt. This Crystal River mound, though not as large, is made mostly from shell... the product of years of eating seafood in this Florida estuary.