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If you find yourself near St Louis, it's well worth your time to visit Cahokia Mounds. It was the Original St Louis, after all. There's also 1 remaining mound on the Missouri side of the Mississippi.

Just don't ask the Cahokia Mounds people if Atlanteans built them.

“That’s a Western mentality of resource exploitation—squeeze everything out of it that you can,” she explains. “[But] that’s not how it was in these Indigenous cultures.” -Caitlin Rankin

From studying coprastanol, from human poop, it sounds like the decline was slow, onto the 1500s.