The Mississippianculture was a thriving Native American civilization United States. The Eastern Woodlandscultural region includes what is now eastern Canada, the Eastern United States, and the Gulf of Mexico south of the Subarctic region.
It was well renowned for creating substantial earthen platforms as well as several different shapes of mounds. In the Mississippi River Valley, the Mississippian way of life first took shape (for which it is named). At this time, cultures along the Tennessee River Valley's tributary may have also started to take on Mississippian traits. Through the 18th century, these preserved Mississippiancultural customs.
A variety of concepts have been used to describe this historical period, including developmental stage, time period, collection of technological adaptations. It can be described as a temporal and cultural manifestation that has evolved continuously in the production of stone and bone tools, leather goods, textiles. Prior to the advent of bows and arrows towards the end of the period, the majority of Woodland peoples relied on spears and atlatls; nevertheless, Southeastern Woodland peoples also employed blowguns.
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