Mississippian

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1. Mississippian - Noun

2. Mississippian - Adjective

3. Mississippian - Proper noun

Meaning

from 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects

a native or resident of Mississippi

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The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes. Michael Heizer

Civilian Conservation Corps workers discovered Native American artifacts on the site in 1938, and archaeological excavations of this Mississippian mound complex were initiated. Source: Internet

In the space of several generations, they created a new society which became known as Choctaw (albeit with a strong Mississippian background). Source: Internet

It was occupied by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture from 1000 to 1450 AD. Source: Internet

Succeeding peoples, including those of the ancient Mississippian culture established by 1000 AD in the Piedmont, continued to build or add on to such mounds. Source: Internet

T.C.Pleger, 2000 Furthermore, some archaeologists find artifactual and structural evidence of casting by Hopewellian and Mississippian peoples to be demonstrated in the archaeological record. Source: Internet

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