Cahokia was the largest pre-Columbian city in North America with a population estimated at around 40,000 people at its height (around 14th century AD), comparable in size to major European cities of the time.
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David WengrowEvidence Quote
“around a thousand years ago this place is the same size as London so about a thousand A.D it's got a population in the tens of thousands you know ballpark it's a it gets up estimates are something like around perhaps forty thousand people at its height um around the the 14th century yeah”
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Everything We Think We Know About Early Human History is Wrong | David Wengrow on Downstream— Novara MediaCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:30:32 PM
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