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The Mississippian (/ ˌ m ɪ s ɪ ˈ s ɪ p i. ə n / MISS-iss-IP-ee-ən), [5] also known as Lower Carboniferous or Early Carboniferous, is a subperiod in the geologic timescale or a subsystem of the geologic record. It is the earlier of two subperiods of the Carboniferous period lasting from roughly 358.9 to 323.2
The site is the largest and most intact Late Mississippian Nodena phase village site within the Central Mississippi Valley. [22] Emerald Mound and Village Site: Illinois A Middle Mississippian period archaeological site located near Lebanon, Illinois. The platform mound is the second-largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in Illinois, after Monk's ...
The chiefdoms of this period collapsed about 1450, possibly because of drought, and a new group emerged to characterize the Late Mississippian period from 1475 to 1600, by which time a European presence in the United States had begun to impact the Mississippian peoples. The period between first contact of the traditional chiefdoms with the ...
As the Mississippian culture declined at the ceremonial center, ca. 1350 a new culture coalesced among people who lived in the swamps downstream. The Late Mississippian period (1350–1600 CE), [9] also consisted of the Lamar Period, where natives built two mounds that have survived at that site, including a unique spiral mound. The Lamar ...
Late Woodland Period 500–1000 Baytown culture: 300–700 CE Plum Bayou culture: 400–900 CE Troyville culture: 300–700 CE Coles Creek culture: 700 – 1100 CE Mississippian culture 900–1500 (ending with European contact) Early Mississippian culture: 1000 – 1200 CE Middle Mississippian culture: 1200 – 1400 CE Late Mississippian ...
1 Geography. 2 Characteristics ... (c. 1300–1600 CE) is an archaeological phase, within the Mississippian III period, ... Late Dallas ranged from 1450–1650 CE ...
The origin of the Upper Mississippian cultures is a matter of debate among archaeologists. They may have been local Late Woodland populations who were influenced by the large-scale chiefdom entities; or they may have originated in one of these more advanced societies and set out to “colonize” the marginal areas to the north.
Aerial view of the Poverty Point earthworks, built by the prehistoric Poverty Point culture, located in present-day Louisiana.. The Poverty Point culture is the archaeological culture of a prehistoric indigenous peoples who inhabited a portion of North America's lower Mississippi Valley and surrounding Gulf coast from about 1730 – 1350 BC.