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Mississippian culture
The Mississippian culture was a Native American mound-building civilisation that flourished in the Mississippi valley and the south-eastern United States from about 800 to 1600 CE. Based on maize farming, it formed chiefdoms centred on towns with large earthen platform mounds, the greatest being Cahokia near modern St Louis. Many later peoples of the South-East, among them the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Creek, descended from Mississippian communities.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Mississippian culture. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/mississippian-culture
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