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@MoundLore MoundLoreMoundLore posts on X about great lakes, if you, culture, history the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Social category influence countries XXXXX% travel destinations XXXX%
Social topic influence great lakes #59, if you 3.77%, culture #3385, history 3.77%, nasa 1.89%, gibraltar 1.89%, curaao 1.89%, peru 1.89%, kenya 1.89%, guinea XXXX%
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"I was watching this 1950s footage and caught myself thinking Life really moved different back then. Not cleaner. Not better. Just steadier. People walked like the ground wasnt going to shift under them tomorrow. Days had a rhythm you could lean on. You can see it in the small stuff the way they talk to each other the way an afternoon just exists without rushing. And it made me pause a bit. When did we lose that When did everyday life start feeling like a deadline youre already behind on Im not romanticizing the 50s. They had their problems. But the pace in this video it hits you. It makes you"
X Link 2025-12-04T11:46Z 21.8K followers, 145.6K engagements
"Most Americans dont realize it but many of our highways follow routes far older than the country itself. Originally corridors carved by geology crafted by bison migrations and turned into continental road systems by Indigenous nations. Lets peel back the asphalt.🧵"
X Link 2025-12-11T01:39Z 21.8K followers, 98.2K engagements
"Best spots in the Midwest for a family vaca"
X Link 2025-12-11T20:35Z 21.8K followers, 3493 engagements
"@JLRogers1984 I agree.but not at this scale or this copper"
X Link 2025-09-06T13:27Z 21.4K followers, 3924 engagements
"The Moon gets written off as ordinary but nothing about it is. A satellite thats way too large for the planet it orbits. A density mismatch that suggests it didnt form with Earth. A perfectly synchronized rotation so precise you only ever see one face. A stabilizing effect on Earths tilt so exact that without it our climate would swing into chaos. Even NASA admits: the impact model still has gaps they cant close. Angular momentum doesnt resolve cleanly. The chemistry doesnt match the math. The timelines fight each other. Ancient cultures built calendars temples and origin stories around the"
X Link 2025-11-27T21:18Z 21.5K followers, 126.4K engagements
"He came up in the brutal circuitry of the age: Essaouira Gibraltar St. Thomas Curaao the ports where sugar moved enslaved people moved and empires kept their ledgers balanced. Then he did something almost no one in his world ever did: he stepped off the track. Called it a change of heart"
X Link 2025-12-01T14:38Z 21.4K followers, XXX engagements
"Donald C. Miller lived on a quiet stretch of Indiana farmland. An engineer a missionary the kind of neighbor who waved from his porch. Behind that house was something nobody expected: one of the largest private artifact collections the FBI had ever seen"
X Link 2025-12-02T16:55Z 21.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Miller spent decades traveling. Peru Kenya Papua New Guinea the Caribbean. Where most people bring home photos he brought home the past. Tools. Pots. Ornaments. Sacred items. And sometimes human remains. He didnt collect casually. He collected like gravity"
X Link 2025-12-02T16:55Z 21.6K followers, XXX engagements
"1960s A day in the life of a kitchen. By Frigidaire. What sticks out to you When did the center of the home shift from a real room to a screen At what point did convenience stop serving us and start hollowing out the way we live Why does a staged 1960s kitchen feel more honest than our real ones"
X Link 2025-12-05T12:15Z 21.4K followers, 1895 engagements
"The biggest mystery in North American archaeology isnt lost civilizations. Its the lost paperwork. Thousands of excavations surveys skeletal measurements pottery typologies and burial descriptions from 18701950 were never published never digitized and in some cases never even filed. Theyre in county courthouses railroad archives church basements private estate boxes mislabeled museum drawers entire data sets that would rewrite regional prehistory if anyone actually tracked them down. We talk like the record is incomplete because the past is gone. Truth is: the past might still be sitting in a"
X Link 2025-12-08T00:17Z 21.4K followers, 17K engagements
"MYTH: Elongated skulls prove a non-human species lived here. FACT: Every North American example shows normal human anatomy standard cranial sutures normal foramen magnum position normal dentition normal brain volume. The shape changed. The species didnt. MYTH: They were born that way. FACT: The skull bones of infants are soft. Cultures used cradleboards pads and bindings to shape the head over months. Its intentional symmetrical and documented across the world. MYTH: The government hid them because they prove giants or aliens. FACT: The Smithsonian and early archaeologists published these"
X Link 2025-12-09T00:56Z 21.4K followers, 1776 engagements
"We mapped ancient trade routes across North America copper moving 1000 miles shells moving inland obsidian crossing whole regions but we almost never talk about the languages that made those exchanges possible. You dont run a continental economy with hand gestures. Somewhere in that silence is a missing chapter of diplomacy translation and shared vocabulary that archaeology hasnt even begun to reconstruct"
X Link 2025-12-09T11:33Z 21.6K followers, 3244 engagements
"People love to say Great Lakes copper spread everywhere but look closely at the actual distribution: Major Mississippian centers get hammered copper plates and repouss iconography Atlantic sites get rolled beads and edge-polished ornaments Gulf Coast cultures get sheet copper in entirely different symbolic vocabularies. Three regions. Three uses. One source"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:30Z 21.8K followers, 11.2K engagements
"@farmer_tr @ancientorigins Think you mentioned but now Im curious"
X Link 2025-12-11T10:38Z 21.8K followers, XX engagements
"They call them gravel pits. But these wide hollowed scars follow old rivers and old stories. Theyre dug where glaciers once melted . Where ancient people camped buried their dead built mounds. And weve been erasing all of it one truckload at a time. 🧵"
X Link 2025-07-01T16:20Z 21.8K followers, 3834 engagements
"I swear we crossed a line somewhere. Used to be you were judged by what you built what you survived what you stood for. Now its what you buy. The brand on your shoes the logo on your cup the subscription siphoning your paycheck. They dont even sell products anymore. They sell personas. Heres your lifestyle. Heres your tribe. Heres who youre supposed to be if you want to belong. Turn consumption into identity and you never have to ask people what they value. You just watch what they swipe on. Most folks think theyre choosing it. They dont see the packaging the algorithms the marketing"
X Link 2025-12-02T14:15Z 21.8K followers, 2329 engagements
"The real controversy in North American archaeology isnt aliens. Its copper. Old Copper tools in the Great Lakes show 4000 years of technological regression from fully functional blades and projectile points back to ornamental plates and beads. No other culture on Earth abandons a metallurgical advantage like that without a cultural earthquake we still havent explained. Everyone argues about who mined the copper. Nobody wants to talk about why they stopped"
X Link 2025-12-08T13:49Z 21.8K followers, 877.9K engagements
"Theres another real mystery in early American archaeology. Its the 30000 miles of drowned coastline we never excavate. Every migration model collapses the moment you admit the first human landscapes are underwater. Were debating tent patterns while the actual entry points are sitting beneath XXX feet of water"
X Link 2025-12-08T22:33Z 21.8K followers, 86.8K engagements
"One of the most inconvenient facts in Hopewell studies is the one nobody brings up online: Where are the big settlements that match the scale of the monuments A society capable of moving hundreds of tons of earth coordinating multi-day rituals and sourcing materials from Yellowstone shouldnt leave behind tiny hamlets and scattered houses. Either: 1.We havent found the real population centers 2.They built in perishable materials that erased their own footprints or 3.Hopewell society functioned on a model we still dont have language for. All three options rewrite the story"
X Link 2025-12-10T10:25Z 21.8K followers, 10K engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @BAJRjobs See thats what i mean i agree to a point. Kinda seems like youre basically saying archeology is scientific but not science and Im not sure what the point of that is. Looking forward to more follow up on the northeast"
X Link 2025-12-10T12:47Z 21.8K followers, XXX engagements
"People talk about European conquest like it was inevitable but thats only true after disease hollowed out the continent. In a healthy intact North America the odds werent even close. Native nations had the numbers the strategy the diplomacy and a knowledge advantage no European army could match. History didnt play out the way its taught. It played out the way catastrophe allowed"
X Link 2025-12-10T14:26Z 21.8K followers, 2683 engagements
"Ok. Best cities in the Midwest for a family vacation"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:09Z 21.8K followers, 4728 engagements
"I like this site"
X Link 2025-12-11T21:34Z 21.8K followers, 1949 engagements
"Between 1540 and 1700 North America experienced the fastest deepest population collapse in human history and we barely know how any of it unfolded. Entire nations moved merged collapsed re-formed. Towns that had stood for XXX years emptied in a single generation. Trade networks snapped. Ceremonial systems rewired themselves. And archaeologists try to model cultures on either side of that century as if the middle didnt happen. Were missing the most chaotic chapter of North American history. The one that explains everything that came after"
X Link 2025-12-08T11:28Z 21.8K followers, 32.1K engagements
"Everyone loves talking about lost coastlines in the U.S. But Canada Canada has an entire submerged world off British Columbia that could hold some of the oldest sites on the continent early villages travel routes migration markers. And almost nobody talks about it because the archaeology is underwater expensive and inconvenient. If the same landscapes were off Greece or Italy theyd have been mapped a decade ago"
X Link 2025-12-08T12:04Z 21.8K followers, 6977 engagements
"People argue about Adena giants but the real story is more interesting: Adena averaged taller than every surrounding population for centuries and not because of biology but because they controlled a food system built around privilege. High-protein diets. Unequal access to resources. Mortuary patterns tied to lineage health. When a culture builds hierarchy into nutrition it literally writes status into bone. If you want a real mystery stop asking if they were giants. Ask how they engineered a society where elite physiology was a political statement"
X Link 2025-12-09T18:42Z 21.8K followers, 4714 engagements
"The real shock in American archaeology isnt Atlantis. Its Watson Brake. A 5400-year-old earthwork complex in Louisiana older than Stonehenge older than the Pyramids built by people who didnt farm didnt live in cities didnt have elites and then the entire tradition disappears. No collapse layer. No invasion. No replacement population. A monumental architecture experiment that rises out of nowhere and ends just as suddenly. Everyone debates who built the big mounds. Nobody wants to talk about why the first ones stopped"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:29Z 21.8K followers, 16.5K engagements
"Erase every American city from the map for a moment. Leave only the rivers and the land underneath. You know what happens The same cities grow back in the same spots. Louisville. Cincinnati. St. Louis. Pittsburgh. Because those places werent chosen by architects or settlers🧵"
X Link 2025-12-12T01:02Z 21.8K followers, 15K engagements
"Moses Elias Levy refuses to stay small. Every time you read him you wonder how the American story buried someone like this. A Moroccan-born Sephardi merchant who walked away from the Atlantic economy and tried to build a Jewish refuge in the Florida wilderness in the 1820s. 🧵"
X Link 2025-12-01T14:37Z 21.8K followers, XXX engagements
"Have you ever shopped at a Sears store"
X Link 2025-12-09T22:15Z 21.8K followers, 1112 engagements
"Right. I wasnt saying you blamed him. Im saying the expectation that he should be publicly talking about the management-plan issue doesnt line up with how these projects actually work. Excavation directors almost never comment on State Party delays or UNESCO compliance. They dont control the plan they dont submit it and theyre not supposed to speak on behalf of the Ministry or UNESCO paperwork. So his silence on that front isnt evasive. Its just the standard boundary between the researchers and the bureaucracy that governs them. That is something that can be critiqued"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:36Z 21.7K followers, XX engagements
"Which is why UNESCO has entire reporting categories and corrective mechanisms built around this problem because they expect it and it happens far more often than the public ever realizes. Its frustrating forsure. And not ideal at all. But the way there excavating is in line with other sites that have outdated plans which is very common"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:11Z 21.7K followers, XX engagements
"@rockymtnhighUT Appreciate the kind words"
X Link 2025-12-11T10:36Z 21.8K followers, XX engagements
"@therealrayra Share some photos if you do"
X Link 2025-12-12T01:13Z 21.8K followers, X engagements