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The Plains Village period or the Plains Village tradition is an archaeological period on the Great Plains from North Dakota down to Texas, spanning approximately 900/950 to 1780/1850 CE. On the west and east, Plains villagers were bounded by the geography and landscapes of the Rocky Mountains and the Eastern Woodlands , respectively.
These village-dwelling, urban, Southern Plains farmers are sometimes called Coalesced Villagers. Meanwhile, others shifted their subsistence patterns, to rely less on agriculture and more upon bison-hunting, [18] Several theories have been advanced to explain why many Southern Plains Villagers opted to relay more heavily on bison-hunting.
Indigenous cultures from the from approximately 900/1000 CE to 1780/1850 CE on the Great Plains This category is for articles relating to the Plains Village period, an archaeological designation following the Plains Woodland period.
The Plains Indians lived in tipis because they were easily disassembled and allowed the nomadic life of following game. The Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado was the first European to describe the Plains Indian culture. He encountered villages and cities of the Plains village cultures.
1000–1780: Plains Village period on Great Plains, from North Dakota to Texas [3] 1070: Great Serpent Mound built in Ohio. [13] 1100: Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon reaches apex in size at 800 rooms [14] 1100: Hohokam culture reaches apex in present-day Arizona [14] 1000–1200: Early Mississippian culture in the Eastern Woodlands [15]
The McLemore Site, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 34WA5, is a prehistoric archaeological site of the Southern Plains villagers located near Colony in Washita County, Oklahoma. It is the site of a prehistoric Plains Indian village, dating from AD 1330-1360, during the Washita River phase. [1]
The Steed-Kisker culture is a cultural phase (name that archaeologists give to a group of culturally similar peoples) of the larger Central Plains Village tradition of the Plains Village period. This term applies to the precontact Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains region of what is now United States.
The Plains Woodland period or Plains Woodland tradition refers to an archaeological period and group of cultures that existed across the Great Plains of North America approximately 2500–200 Before Present (BP). It was preceded by the Plains Archaic period and succeeded by the Plains Village period.