Mississippian

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• By far, the most frequent chronometric age determinations link southeastern cave art with the Mississippian period.
• During his stay at Kent State, Loren monographed the Devonian and Mississippian conulariids of North America, and described disarticulated conulariids.
• Direct evidence for Mississippian mortuary ceremonialism, however, has not been widely reported in the Central Illinois River valley.
• Structurally associated with an anticline, where erosion of broken rock scooped out the linear valley, it is composed mostly of Mississippian to Ordovician-age limestones, dolomites, and shales, with some low, cherty ridges. Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA)
• Such a system appears to have come into existence only after the Mississippian emergence and the appearance of chiefs.
• Direct evidence for Mississippian mortuary ceremonialism, however, has not been widely reported in the Central Illinois River valley.
• Understanding this faunal record is quite important, because crinoidal facies were a dominant lithofacies along the western margin of North America during the Lower Mississippian.
• Finally, the culturally mediated selection process changed through time, coincident with changes in social organization that characterized the late Mississippian period.
• Our interpretation of the Mississippian emergence is acculturative in nature rather than adaptive (Pauketat, this issue), and it deemphasizes the importance of technology and trade as causal factors.
• A similar situation exists with the Mississippian figurines of flint clay that are often misidentified as bauxite or pipestone.