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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]
Norman's chart of the lower Mississippi River is a historically significant map produced in 1858 of landmarks, roads, ferry crossings, and plantations along the course of the Mississippi River from Natchez to New Orleans. [1] [2] Cotton and sugar plantations are color-coded with distinct colors. [1]
An assortment of pottery found at the site, on display at the site museum. The Winterville people made pottery by building up strips of clay, and then smoothing them out, much like other pottery in the Eastern American area where the potter's wheel was unknown. They tempered the pottery with ground mussel shell, grit, grog, and angular bits of ...
The area of the Mississippi River basin was first settled by hunting and gathering Native American peoples and is considered one of the few independent centers of plant domestication in human history. [80] Evidence of early cultivation of sunflower, a goosefoot, a marsh elder and an indigenous squash dates to the 4th millennium BC.
Stylistically they closely resemble pottery found along the Tennessee, Cumberland, the lower Ohio River and the central Mississippi Valleys. This pottery was long thought to have been imported from these other areas as trade items, and modern chemical analysis has shown that much of it is.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Marshall County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
There are more than 1,400 sites distributed among all of Mississippi's 82 counties. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below), may be seen in an online map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates".
The Murphy Mound Archeological Site (), is a prehistoric archaeological site in the Bootheel region of the U.S. state of Missouri.Located southwest of Caruthersville in Pemiscot County, Missouri [2]: 302 the site was occupied by peoples of the Late Mississippian period, centuries before European colonization of the area.