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Archaeological Sites of the Mississippian Culture

Mississippian, Adena, Hopewell and Caddoan sites are found throughout the middle part of the United States within the river basins of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.

Etowah Mounds
Etowah was a Mississippian chiefdom center located in the in the Lower Mississippi Valley in Georgia.

Go Visit Cahokia!
Too few people who live in the American midwest have been to see the mounds at Cahokia, very near St. Louis, Missouri; in fact many have never heard of the site, which held several thousand people at its heyday and influenced styles of building and pottery (if not politics and religion) as far away as Wisconsin and Oklahoma.

Lyon's Bluff (Mississippi USA)
The Lyon's Bluff site (Smithsonian designation 22OK520) is a Mississippian period mound and village site located in northeastern Oktibbeha County, Mississippi.

Great Hopewell Road
LiDAR Imaging of the Great Hopewell Road, a presentation by the Ohio Archaeological Council.

Spiro Mounds: A Ceremonial Center of the Southern Cult
Way out at the very far western edge of the late prehistoric cultural manifestation archaeologists call the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex lies the earthworks known as Spiro Mounds.

The Ray Site
An outlier from the Angel Site in Indiana, from the Glen Black Laboratories at Indiana University.

Toltec Mounds, Arkansas
Now a state park, the misnamed Toltec Mounds date to the Late Woodland/Early Mississippian period.

Town Creek Indian Mound
Archaeological site in the southern Piedmont region of North Carolina, consisting of an earth lodge and cemetery of the PeeDee tradition. Website from the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, has a multitude of information on it.

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