Mississippian culture

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Mississippian culture: Ocmulgee National Monument

Monks Mound, Cahokia State Historic Site, Illinois

Take a look at researchers studying Mississippians copper work from the Cahokian mounds in southwestern Illinois

Ceremonial center

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Diverse elementary school children wearing school uniforms running outside of school. Boys girls

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Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

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Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.

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Mississippian culture: Media

ancient North American culture

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Take a look at researchers studying Mississippians copper work from the Cahokian mounds in southwestern Illinois

Take a look at researchers studying Mississippians copper work from the Cahokian mounds in southwestern Illinois

Researchers studying the pre-Columbian copper work from the Cahokia Mounds, southwestern...

Video: Courtesy of Northwestern University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Images

Mississippian culture: Ocmulgee National Monument

Mississippian culture: Ocmulgee National Monument

Reconstructed earth lodge at Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia, U.S., the site...

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Monks Mound, Cahokia State Historic Site, Illinois

Monks Mound, Cahokia State Historic Site, Illinois

Monks Mound, the largest man-made earthen structure in North America, is part of...

Courtesy of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site

Ceremonial center

Ceremonial center

Cahokia as it may have appeared c. 1150 ce; painting...

Courtesy of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site; painting by Michael Hampshire

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