Sherds confirm a trade network that included not only the Hopewell centers, but also the Sylva and Mississippian period have been found.
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Intensive agriculture characterizes the Mississippian period from ca . 1000-1400 CE and may have continued up to European contact, around 500 years ago.
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Early interactions between American-Indians of the Mississippian Period and European explorers such as Hernando de Soto were especially destructive for American-Indian populations.
24.
During Mississippian Period ( 800 to 1500 CE ), Cherokee ancestors developed a new variety of corn called eastern flint, which closely resembles modern corn.
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The Mississippian Period was also the time of interaction with the Spanish to the area, starting with Hernando de Soto's march through the area in 1540.
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Artifacts from the settlement link its major habitation and the construction of the mounds to the Mississippian period, but it was also occupied earlier during the Woodland period.
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Following the Paleo-Indian period is the Woodland Tradition ( 1, 000 BCE to 100 CE ), and the Mississippian Period ( 900 to 1500 CE ).
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By the middle of the Mississippian period, the uplift stopped, and the Acadian Mountains had been eroded so much that sediments no longer flowed across the Catskill Delta.
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A major component of the book deals with the recent ability to connect the periods of the sixteenth-century Late Mississippian period to the eighteenth-century colonial period.
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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.
