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A map showing approximate areas of various Mississippian and related cultures (c. 800-1500 CE) This is a list of Mississippian sites. The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, inland-Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally. [1]
Prentiss (also known as "Wellington", "Indian Point Landing", and "Indian Town") is a ghost town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. Once a thriving river port and county seat, Prentiss was destroyed during the Civil War, and then washed over by the Mississippi River during the 1870s. There is also a Prentiss, Ms in the Southwest.
The Mississippi Mound Trail is a driving tour of 33 sites adjoining U.S. Route 61 where indigenous peoples of the Mississippi Delta built earthworks. [1] The mounds were primarily built between 500 and 1500 AD, [2] but are representative of a variety of cultures known as the Mound Builders. Each site has a historical marker and is accessible by ...
Nanih Waiya (alternately spelled Nunih Waya; [2] Choctaw for 'slanting mound') [3] is an ancient platform mound in southern Winston County, Mississippi, constructed by indigenous people during the Middle Woodland period, about 300 to 600 CE.
The mound builders were a variety of pre-Columbian cultures who inhabited the areas of the Great Lakes, the Ohio River Valley, and the Mississippi River valley. Rather than the wigwam of much of the plains peoples, or the pueblo culture of the American southwest, the mound builders created giant earthwork communities.
The Owl Creek Mounds are a Native American Ceremonial Complex located in Mississippi's Tombigbee National Forest.The mounds are believed to have been built between 800 and 900 years ago during the Mississippian era. [1]
The Yazoo Basin is a floodplain of the Mississippi River and features a variety of geomorphic features created by meandering channels of the Mississippi River over the last several thousand years. [16] Carson and the mounds were constructed over a crevasse splay which was deposited by the Mississippi River around 2800 years ago. [7]
Mississippi River and Mississippi Sound – from the Ojibwe 'Great River' [106] Mubby Creek [44] Nanabe Creek [44] Nanih Waiya Creek [112] Natchez Island and Natchez Lake [9] Neshoba County Lake [47] Nita Lake [47] Nonconnah Creek, in Tennessee and slightly within Marshall County, Mississippi [47] [48] Noxapater Creek [48] Noxubee River [113 ...