Its four terraces soared about 100 feet high. Sacred eagleA copper headdress plate from Mississippian culture shows an eagle. It was found in Illinois. Smithsonian Institution/Dept. of ...

Meet the Mississippians. Long before European settlers planted the seeds of modern civilization in North America, the Mississippian culture spread from the Florida Panhandle all the way to southern ...

Shell cups carved with mythical beings. Large effigy pipes. Beaded baskets. These are among the archaeologically significant objects excavated from the Spiro Mounds. Often overlooked, this Native ...

But this sprawling Native American metropolis from the Mississippian culture vanished long before Europeans arrived in North America. What happened? Now, cutting-edge scientific research offers a ...

About 1,000 years ago, agricultural communities were established in what would become the Southeastern and Midwestern United States, and the Mississippian culture flourished. Keith Ashley is an ...

But there is a fourth, and often unrecognized, important civilization in North America: the Mississippian culture (800–1650 A.D.). Encompassing a large area of the southeastern part of what is ...

A team of archaeologists and its trusty drone are revealing an island community that once supplied valuable beads to the inland towns of the Mississippian culture, which thrived in the eastern ...

Scientists cannot seem to agree on what exactly led to the rise or the fall of this Mississippian American Indian culture, a group of farming societies that ranged from north of the Cahokia site ...

The park has worked thoroughly with Native American tribes like the Eastern Band of Cherokee to learn more about the Mississippian culture, something which no longer exists, Neblett said in 2021.

He was happy he did because he then discovered stone tools and pottery fragments left behind hundreds of years earlier by an ancient Mississippian culture. “It was a monumental discovery for the ...