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Mississippian culture

Precolonial Native American tradition that took root in the Mississippi River Valley around A.D. 1000 and spread across much of the present-day US Midwest and Southeast, marked by chiefdoms, platform mounds, maize agriculture and shell-tempered pottery.

Known aliases

Mississippian

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

science1 publisher

Clay and temper trace Tampa Bay's Mississippian pottery to potters who moved there

Florida Museum researchers compared 58 plain and decorated sherds from Tampa Bay and report in American Antiquity that migrant artisans made the decorated vessels on the coast, one of three explanations archaeologists had weighed for a century.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+15
Incentives55
Confidence55