Mississippian Culture Facts Worksheet
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Description
Culture of the Mississippian people
Lived in the Mississippi River Valley
Time Native Americans who lived in the Mississippi River Valley
lived throughout Southeast and Midwest
Florida panhandle, west to Oklahoma, north to Minnesota, east to Ohio
earthwork pyramid mounds
Built atop mounds
Maize based agriculture
Shell tempered agent in ceramics
Rockies, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean
socially complex
institutionalized social inequality
power in the hands of one or a few
one major mound with smaller mounds
Southeastern Ceremonial complex ritual game playing
Absence of stone architecture and
Worked naturally occurring deposits
Mississippians did not practice bronze metallurgy or smelt
