Ancient Courses - Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps Of The Mississippi River (1944)
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https://kottke.org/19/06/the-marvelous-mississippi-river-meander-maps <-- shared blog post
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[Daniel Coe has done and continues to make amazing hydrographic cartography in this regard, see image attached]
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“[T]housands of years of course changes compressed into a single image by a clever mapmaker with an artistic eye. Looking at them, you're invited to imagine the Mississippi as it was during the European exploration of the Americas in the 1500s, during the Cahokia civilization in the 1200s (when this city's population matched London's), when the first humans came upon the river more than 12,000 years ago, and even back to before humans, when mammoths, camels, dire wolves, and giant beavers roamed the land and gazed upon the river…”
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Two millennia of channel shifts in the Mississippi River. This 1944 map (of the northern Mississippi Delta) is #6 of 15 charting the river's many ghosts from Thebes Gap down to Donaldsonville, Louisiana.
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It's not the delta of the Mississippi River. It's fertile bottomland in Mississippi, (the state) between the Mississippi River and the Yazoo River. Shaped like a sideways Jamacia, but about 40% larger. I don't know which place grows better weed.