Mississippian

(adjective)

A mound-building, agrarian Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE.

Related Terms

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  • long-nosed god maskette
  • mound builder
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Examples of Mississippian in the following topics:

  • Mississippian Culture

    • The Mississippian Period lasted from approximately 800 to 1540 CE.
    • This is the belief system of the Mississippians as we know it.
    • Mississippian cultures, like many before them, built mounds.
    • Mississippian artists produced unique art works.
    • There were a number of Mississippian cultures, with most spreading from the Middle Mississippian area.
  • Native Americans in the 1490's

    • The time directly leading up to the arrival of Europeans in America is known as the Mississippian period.
    • A number of cultural traits are recognized as being characteristic of the Mississippians.
    • The Mississippian period is usually divided into three or more sub-sections: the Early Mississippian period (c. 1000–1200 C.E.); the Middle Mississippian period (c. 1200–1400 C.E.); and the Late Mississippian period, which extended from roughly 1400 C.E. to the time contact with the first Europeans was made.
    • The Middle Mississippian period is often considered the high point of the Mississippian era.
    • The Mississippian traits listed above came to be widespread throughout the region.
  • Woodlands in the East

    • While many Woodland cultures produced copper sculptures, Cahokia was the only Mississippian location to contain a copper workshop.
    • By the time of European contact the Mississippian societies were already experiencing severe social stress.
    • Other tribes descended from Mississippian cultures include the Caddo, Choctaw, Muskogee Creek, Wichita, and many other southeastern peoples.
    • Three examples of Mississippian culture avian themed repoussé copper plates.
    • This Mississippian culture ceramic effigy jug was found at Rose Mound in Cross County, Arkansas, and dates from 1400-1600.
  • Beadwork and Ceramics in the Eastern Woodland Cultures

    • The Mississippian culture flourished from approximately 800-1500 CE in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States.
    • One of the defining marks of Mississippian culture pottery is its use of more advanced ceramic techniques, such as the use of ground mussel shell as a tempering agent in the clay paste.
    • With the invasion of the Europeans and the diseases they introduced, many of the societies collapsed and ceased to practice a Mississippian lifestyle.
    • A human head effigy pot from the Mississippian culture, on display at the Hampson Museum State Park in Wilson.
  • Innovation and Limitation

    • The Mississippian culture [] was spread across the Southeast and Midwest from the Atlantic coast to the edge of the plains, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Upper Midwest, although most intensively in the area along the Mississippi River and Ohio River.
    • Mississippian site in Arkansas, Parkin Site, circa 1539.
  • Evolution of Gymnosperms

    • Following the wet Mississippian and Pennsylvanian periods, which were dominated by giant fern trees, the Permian period was dry.
  • Examples Revisited

    • " This program depicts the efforts of black and white college student volunteers to help African American Mississippians register to vote during the "Freedom Summer of 1964. " These student workers serve as role models for the student viewers.
  • Eastern Woodland Culture

    • While full scale intensive agriculture did not begin until the following Mississippian period, the beginning of serious cultivation greatly supplemented the gathering of plants.
    • In practice, many regions of the Eastern Woodlands adopted the full Mississippian culture much later than 1,000 CE.
  • Archaeology and History

    • Examples include the Dorset culture, the Zapotec civilization, the Mimbres culture, and the Olmec, Woodland, and Mississippian cultures.
  • Women of the Civil Rights Movement

    • In the summer of 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, or "Freedom Democrats" for short, was organized with the purpose of challenging Mississippi's all-white and anti-civil rights delegation to the Democratic National Convention, which failed to represent all Mississippians.
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