Mississippian in a sentence

The Daily Mississippian reached out to every Greek fraternity on this campus regarding saving seats in the student section at Ole Miss football games.

This area, and for hundreds of miles in every direction, was once home to what have become known as the Mississippian people–mound builders.

Even though the cold weather has scared off most of the mosquitoes, another Mississippian has died of West Nile virus and this time it’s someone from the local area.

The online publisher looked at county health data and found that the average person in Attala County lives about seven tenths of a year less than the average Mississippian and that puts the county in a tie for the 39th-lowest life expectancy in the state.

It was thought to have been constructed by the Mississippian people between 900 AD and 1100 AD.

Archaeological evidence also shows that by 1200, Cahokia’s population was on the decline and the site was abandoned by its mound-building Mississippian inhabitants by 1400.

Of course, European immigrants weren't the first to use the river this way — the mound-building Mississippian culture built their vast empire here for the same reason.

Bottle Creek is an archaeological site in South Alabama associated with the Pensacola culture, a variant of the Mississippian culture that dominated the Southeast from 1000 to 1550 AD.

TGS also said it is expanding two 2018 onshore surveys in the Anadarko basin in the US, each targeting the Mississippian Chester, Osage and Meranec intervals in the Scoop/Stack play.

Civilian Conservation Corps workers discovered Native American artifacts on the site in 1938, and archaeological excavations of this Mississippian mound complex were initiated.

In the space of several generations, they created a new society which became known as Choctaw (albeit with a strong Mississippian background).

It was occupied by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture from 1000 to 1450 AD.

Succeeding peoples, including those of the ancient Mississippian culture established by 1000 AD in the Piedmont, continued to build or add on to such mounds.

T.C.Pleger, 2000 Furthermore, some archaeologists find artifactual and structural evidence of casting by Hopewellian and Mississippian peoples to be demonstrated in the archaeological record.

The current internationally used geologic timescale of the ICS gives the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian the rank of subperiods, subdivisions of the Carboniferous Period.

The entire area is a dissected plateau of Pennsylvanian and Mississippian age, but appears mountainous to the casual observer.

The Mississippian began with a spike in atmospheric oxygen, while carbon dioxide plummeted to unheard-of lows.

The Mississippian culture arose as the cultivation of maize from Mesoamerica led to population growth.

The Mississippian culture developed in the lower Mississippi river valley and its tributaries, including the Ohio River.

The Mississippian culture left mounds throughout the middle Mississippi and Ohio river valleys, extending into the southeast as well as the upper river.