Subsequent investigations by archaeologists from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville confirmed that these drawings were left by Mississippian Era Indians.

Indian artifacts collected in DeSoto County link it with prehistoric groups of Woodland and Mississippian Indians.

Cave Spring is well known for the natural wonders of the cave and spring site where native Indians came to the area ( both Cherokee and earlier Mississippian culture ).

While moats are commonly associated with European castles, they were also developed by North American Indians of the Mississippian culture as the outer defence of some fortified villages.

The painter George Catlin suggested the Mandans were descendants of Madoc and his fellow voyagers in North American Indians ( 1841 ); he found the round Mandan Bull Boat similar to the Welsh coracle, and he thought the advanced architecture of Mandan villages must have been learned from Europeans ( advanced North American societies such as the Mississippian and Hopewell cultures were not well known in Catlin's time ).

Talisi was a town of the Coosa Province of the Mississippian culture ; it was visited in 1540 by Hernando de Soto and his expedition through the Southeast.

There is some evidence that Toqua's Mississippian village was the village of Tali, visited and recorded by the Hernando de Soto expedition in 1540.

Likely built by the Mississippian culture, which rose about 1000 CE on the Mississippi and its tributaries, this mound was reported in use as late as 1540 by the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.

The local Mississippian culture, described by Hernando de Soto in 1540, had completely disappeared by 1560.

Almost all dated Mississippian sites predate 1539-1540 ( when Hernando de Soto explored the area ).

* The Parkin Site: The type site for the " Parkin phase ", an expression of Late Mississippian culture, believed by many archaeologists to be the province of Casqui visited by Hernando de Soto in 1542.

* variant of Mabila, a Mississippian fortress town of Chief Tuskaloosa, who ambushed Hernando de Soto's Spanish expedition in 1540.

It was a place of encounter in 1540 between the Mississippian people and the party of Spanish conquistador Hernando De Soto.

* 800-1500 CE Mississippian culture rises and declines in this area, evidenced by mound sites and accounts by Hernando de Soto.

Over 200 years passed and the Mississippian Indian culture disappeared, devastated by disease, but the Indian town named Chicasa which De Soto visited was probably the ancestral home of the Chickasaws who still lived in the area when Anglo-Americans began showing up.

The Carboniferous is often treated in North America as two geological periods, the earlier Mississippian and the later Pennsylvanian.

The Mississippian is about twice as long as the Pennsylvanian, but due to the large thickness of coal bearing deposits with Pennsylvanian ages in Europe and North America, the two subperiods were long thought to have been more or less equal.

This sea level drop and the associated unconformity in North America separate the Mississippian subperiod from the Pennsylvanian subperiod.

In the North American system, the Mississippian is subdivided into four stages:

The division between Pennsylvanian and Mississippian comes from North American stratigraphy.

In North America, where the early Carboniferous beds are primarily marine limestones, the Pennsylvanian was in the past treated as a full fledged geologic period between the Mississippian and the Permian.

In the Americas, the Toltec and Mixtec civilizations flourished in central America, along with the Huari Culture of South America and the Mississippian culture of North America.

* Mississippian culture flourishes in North America.

In North America, the Mississippian culture rose at the end of the millennium in the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys.

A mound similar to others across North Georgia ( including the famous Etowah Indian Mounds ) is located about one mile ( 1. 6 km ) east of Dillard, Georgia and is likely a remnant of an earlier mound-building Native American culture known as the Mississippian culture.

By the Mississippian Period, 340 million years ago, much of western North America was covered with a warm, shallow sea, much like the Gulf Coast of Florida today.

Late 20th-century studies showed the mounds were built and occupied by prehistoric indigenous peoples of the South Appalachian Mississippian culture ( a regional variation of the Mississippian culture ) of eastern North America.

This cave, which developed in Mississippian Period limestone, is one of the most extensive cavern systems in North America.

The Fort Ancient culture was influenced by the contemporary Mississippian culture society based along the mid-Mississippi River valley with its North American center at Cahokia ( in present-day Illinois ).

The Mississippian culture had regional chiefdoms as far south as present-day Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as extending to western North Carolina and north to the Great Lakes area.

South Appalachian Mississippian area sites are distributed across a contiguous area including Alabama, Georgia, northern Florida, South Carolina, and central and western North Carolina and Tennessee.

The Mississippian culture peoples had trade with societies as far away as North Carolina, Wisconsin, and the Gulf of Mexico.

Caborn-Welborn was a prehistoric North American culture defined by archaeologists as a Late Mississippian cultural manifestation that grew out of — or built upon the demise of — the Angel chiefdom.

Often associated with mounds and other mortuary complexes across the Eastern Woodlands ( concentrated in the North American Southeast ), step pyramids were constructed as ceremonial centres by the Mississippian cultures ( 900-1500CE ), and are regarded as a facet of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex.

Joara was a large Native American settlement, a regional chiefdom of the Mississippian culture, located in what is now Burke County, North Carolina.

The Mississippian is so named because rocks with this age are exposed in the Mississippi River valley.

In the five centuries prior to European contact, the Mississippian culture built numerous regional chiefdoms and major earthwork mounds in the Ohio Valley, such as Angel Mounds near Evansville, Indiana, as well as in the Mississippi Valley and the Southeast.

They were descendants of the Mississippian culture peoples, who built earthwork mounds at their regional chiefdoms located throughout the Mississippi River valley and its tributaries.

Approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, the Mississippi River Delta was populated by tribes of the Mississippian culture, a mound-building Native American people that had developed in the late Woodland Indian period.

The historic Creek peoples in this area are believed to have descended from the Mississippian culture, which flourished throughout the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys and the Southeast from about 1000 to 1450.

They are the only such sites discovered in Georgia east of the Mississippi River, and were made by the Mississippian peoples who inhabited the area 900-1500 A. D.

The Native American Choctaw people are descended from the Mississippian and other societies in the Mississippi river valley encountered by Spanish explorers in the early 16th century.

For instance, the Mississippian culture, reaching a peak about 1150 at Cahokia in present-day Illinois, had sites throughout the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys, and into the Southeast.

They are effigy and geometric mounds, different from the platform mounds at nearby Aztalan State Park, built by peoples of the Mississippian culture, which reached its peak about 1300 CE, had settlements throughout the Mississippi Valley and its tributaries, extending from central Illinois northward to the Great Lakes and also to the Southeastern United States.

They were descended from people of the Mississippian culture which was located throughout the Mississippi River valley.

Harrison ’ s campaign manager asked Bilbo, the junior member from Mississippi, to consider voting for his fellow Mississippian.

With the rise of the Mississippian culture in the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys, tribal leaders organized thousands to build complex urban areas with numerous large earthworks-pyramidal, ridgetop and conical mounds used for religious, political and ceremonial purposes.

These included the Pre-Columbian cultures of the Archaic period ; Woodland period ( Adena and Hopewell cultures ); and the Mississippian period ; dating from roughly 3000 BCE to the 16th century CE, and living in regions of the Great Lakes, the Ohio River valley, and the Mississippi River valley and its tributaries, extending into the Southeast of the present-day United States.

This site is the most northeastern of the Mississippian culture, which had sites throughout the river valleys of the Mississippi and its tributaries, such as the Ohio River.

He was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1836 ; reporter of the supreme court of the State of Mississippi ; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress and editor of the Mississippian.

The Mississippian way of life began to develop around the 10th century in the Mississippi River Valley ( for which it is named ).

The Mississippian way of life began to develop in the Mississippi River Valley ( for which it is named ).

The " Mississippi period " should not be confused with the " Mississippian culture ".

The Mississippi period is the stage, while Mississippian is referred to as the cultural similarities that characterize this society.

* Emerald Mound: A Plaquemine Mississippian period archaeological site located on the Natchez Trace Parkway near Stanton, Mississippi.