wow, it’s incredible! the two images sent me on a rabbit hole trying to investigate the city. the history of it is amazing. can’t imagine living in the shadow of ancient imperial infrastructure. in the US, it’s more frequently like, “on this site, there was a very retro-futurist looking McDonalds in the 1970s. we can only imagine what sorts of burgers and sodas they once ordered. today, we can enter the more modern-looking and sleek McDonalds built on the old site.”
yeah sure. I’ve been to Chaco and Mesa Verde and they are awesome etc, but the settler culture was hostile to the earlier peoples and obliterated everything it could recognize near the settler developments.
Exactly! It is called a Circus. Though one might be more familiar with the Greek name, Hippodrome.
wow, it’s incredible! the two images sent me on a rabbit hole trying to investigate the city. the history of it is amazing. can’t imagine living in the shadow of ancient imperial infrastructure. in the US, it’s more frequently like, “on this site, there was a very retro-futurist looking McDonalds in the 1970s. we can only imagine what sorts of burgers and sodas they once ordered. today, we can enter the more modern-looking and sleek McDonalds built on the old site.”
Don’t forget the pueblo culture or Mississippian culture. The US isn’t as densely filled with ancient infrastructure but it’s there
yeah sure. I’ve been to Chaco and Mesa Verde and they are awesome etc, but the settler culture was hostile to the earlier peoples and obliterated everything it could recognize near the settler developments.