Bill Skinner
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By writing papers about how communities would bond by digging mile long ditches around a hill. Really.
I work with Archies all the time. Google Moundville, Al sometimes. Now, the theory is that at its peak, there were 15,000 to 25,000 people living there. In about a square mile. So, if you want to stump an Archie, ask them how the people there disposed of their sewage. They had to have some way, and they didn't dump it in the rivers, they still weren't doing that when the first Europeans got here 900 years later. Which was why their immune systems were not prepared for all the water borne diseases that the Europeans brought with them.
But when you ask an Archie, they'll say that that isn't important. Then they will start talking about the ceremonies and the religious practices. Which is what got everyone to start collecting in large groups. Then ask they why the Indians built the mounds.
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