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| 267853963 | General Mississippian Period | (AD 1000 - 1500) Agricultural economy; Maize! Regional polities. The major centers were Cahokia, Moundville, etc. There was monumental architecture: earthen mounds. | 0 | |
| 267853964 | AD 900 | First occupied! | 1 | |
| 267853965 | AD 1050 | Maximum Peak! | 2 | |
| 267853966 | Post-AD 1350 | Decline! | 3 | |
| 267853967 | Monk's Mound | It was the largest structure. It would take 30 people filling eight 55 pound baskets of dirt a day. It took 167 years to build and decorate. It was believed that they built this seasonally and not all at once. | 4 | |
| 267853968 | Mound 72 | (AD 1000 - 1100) they buried 270 individuals. Melvin Fowler excavated it in 1972. There was woodhenge, a charnel house, and burials. The mass internment had females, males, and some headless burials. There was a high status burial on a bed of shell beads. They also found a grave of 50 women together between the ages of 18-23. They discovered a lot of relationships with others around North America. They also found "chungke" stones, which are disks for a game. | 5 | |
| 267853969 | Palisade | They used 20,000 longs to construct this structure. it was rebuilt three times and it was used as a defensive structure. | 6 |
