Cahokians loved to build their homes right on top of the ritualistically closed-up floors of previous ones. They drove new wall posts right into the filled postholes of the last house. When archaeologists excavate a home, they frequently find several floors carefully packed atop each other, each one representing roughly a generation of residents. It’s as if people were giving their houses funeral rites. You might say Cahokians believed their city was alive, but they also accepted that its lifespan was finite.
