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The Mississippian period is the chronological stage, while Mississippian culture refers to the cultural similarities that characterize this society. The Early Mississippian period (c. 1000 –1200) had just transitioned from the Late Woodland period way of life (500–1000).
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
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 ...
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 ...
Late Mississippian culture — period of the later Mississippian culture in pre-Columbian southeastern North America, with sites in the present day Eastern United ...
The spread of the Mississippian culture from the late 1st millennium CE most likely involved cultural assimilation, in archaeological terminology called "Mississippianised" cultures. 19th-century ethnography assumed that the Mound-builders were an ancient prehistoric race with no direct connection to the Southeastern Woodland peoples of the ...
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.