HIST 10800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Mississippian Culture, Mica, Raphael
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A. 3. lived in what is now southern ohio route for trade: ohio river skilled craftspeople as well as clever traders. A. 3. a. sculptors carved stones into pipes shaped like falcons, beavers, and wildcats. Others hammered sheets of copper into eagles and sliced mica into bird claws. Buried many of their finest products inside 1000"s of earthen mounds. A. 4. their burial practices and artistic styles influenced people throughout eastern n. A. 5. a. then, for reasons unknown, the hopewell culture declined and disappeared: the mississippians. Ad 600: group of people called mississipians settled along mississippi river took advantage of valley"s fertile bottomlands and grew fields of corn, squash, and beans. B. 3. a. larges and most important center of mississippian culture: cakokia in illinois. B. 3. a. i. located near the joining of the mississippi and ohio rivers. 12th century: as many 10k ppl lived in there. B. 3. a. iii. a 100-foot-high earthen temple mound dominated the city.
