Canada's Cahokia

Owen Jarus, writing for Live Science:

Scientists estimate between 1,500 and 1,800 individuals inhabited the site, whose fields encompassed a Manhattan-size area. To clothe themselves they would have needed 7,000 deer hides annually, something that would have required hunting about 26 miles (40 km) in every direction from the site, Williamson said.

Not as big as the real Cahokia, but impressive nonetheless.

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