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Approximate areas of various Mississippian and related cultures. The Mississippian culture were collections of Native American societies that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1600, varying regionally.
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]
At any given Upper Mississippian site, on a daily basis the Native American inhabitants undertook a variety of tasks and activities. [citation needed] Evidence of hunting activities is found in the chipped stone projectile points.
A view of the site from the top of Mound B looking toward Mound A and the plaza A view across the plaza from mound J to mound B, with mound A in the center. The site was occupied by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture from around 1000 AD to 1450 AD. [3]
Mississippian birdman from the Etowah Indian Mounds, Georgia. The Mississippian shatter zone describes the period from 1540 to 1730 in the southeastern part of the present United States. During that time, the interaction between European explorers and colonists transformed the Native American cultures of that region.
An early American geographer noted in his 1797 gazetteer that they were also known as the "Sun Set Indians". [5] The Natchez are noted for being the only Mississippian culture with complex chiefdom characteristics to have survived long into the period of European colonization.
The announcement of the frog's return comes two years after a conservation effort began to bring them back to the archaeological site that was home to the Mississippian culture of Native Americans ...
The Plaquemine culture was a Mississippian culture variant centered on the Mississippi River valley, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to just south of its junction with the Arkansas River, encompassing the Yazoo River basin and Natchez Bluffs in western Mississippi, and the lower Ouachita and Red River valleys in southeastern Arkansas, and eastern Louisiana. [1]