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4 unusual facts about Mississippian


Ed Hooper

In 1996, Hooper coordinated a successful national media campaign to bring attention to the plight of Shiloh National Military Park’s erosion issues and the destruction of a Mississippian Indian Mound, which sat on the back of the National Park Service's Shiloh property.

Hanging Lake

The fragile shoreline of Hanging Lake is composed of travertine, created when dissolved limestone from the Mississippian period Leadville Formation (through which Dead Horse Creek flows) is deposited on rocks and logs, creating travertine layers.

Hydrobiidae

The fossil record of this family extends back to the Early Carboniferous.

Sharon Irla

Her collective body of works span the fields of painting, murals, graphics, photography, and custom picture frames with Southeastern Woodlands / Mississippian motifs.


Absaroka

Absaroka sequence, a cratonic sequence that extended from the end of the Mississippian through the Permian periods

Blue Knob State Park

The mountains in the park are capped by the Mississippian Burgoon Sandstone, which is underlain by the transitional Devonian-Mississippian Rockwell Formation, consisting of crossbedded argillacious sandstone with some shale beds.

Brentwood Library Site

Mississippian culture pottery vessels and sherds found at the site were made with techniques and forms found across the Mississippian world.

Gregory Perino

In Illinois, he is well known for his numerous excavations of Middle and Late Woodland, and Mississippian mortuary sites in the Illinois, Mississippi, and Kaskaskia River valleys.

Little Pine State Park

Below this is the late Devonian and early Mississippian Huntley Mountain Formation, which is made of relatively soft grayish-red shale and olive-gray sandstone.

Mississippian culture

At Joara, near Morganton, North Carolina, Native Americans of the Mississippian culture interacted with Spanish explorers of the Juan Pardo expedition, who built a base there in 1567 called Fort San Juan.

The Caddoan Mississippian area, a regional variant of the Mississippian culture, covered a large territory, including what is now eastern Oklahoma, western Arkansas, northeastern Texas, and northwestern Louisiana.

Moundville Archaeological Site

The culture was expressed in villages and chiefdoms throughout the central Mississippi River Valley, the lower Ohio River Valley, and most of the Mid-South area, including Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi as the core of the classic Mississippian culture area.

Oil Creek State Park

Most of the oil produced in northwestern Pennsylvania was formed in sandstone reservoir rocks at the boundary between the Mississippian and Devonian rock layers.

Pleasant View Farm

Pleasant View Farm containing Samuel F. Glass House, Franklin, Tennessee, with a Mississippian culture archeological site

Southeastern Illinois College

The name may derive from settlers seeing a similarity between their wagon trains and the ancient Israelites, or from the similarity of the Egyptian pyramids and the Mississippian mounds in the area.

Spiro Mounds

Pauketat, Timothy R. The Ascent of Chiefs: Cahokia and Mississippian Politics in Native North America, Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama, 1994.

Twin Mounds

Twin Mounds Site, a Mississippian culture archaeological site near Barlow, Kentucky


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