Shiloh in Hardin County, Tennessee — The American South (East South Central)
Mississippian Indians
Photographed By Sandra Hughes, September 1, 2009
1. Mississippian Indians Marker
Inscription.
Mississippian Indians. . The Mississippian-the ancient people who lived here-were unlike their ancestors in several ways. Instead of being nomadic hunter-gatherers, they were farmers who devised an agricultural lifestyle based on corn. They settled in towns along the Mississippi, the Tennessee, and other southeastern river-ways and traded goods with other American Indians in the eastern United States.
Mississippians developed a leadership system of hereditary chiefdoms and built mounds for governmental buildings, temples, and notable burials. At various times leaders may have come from different, opposing clans within the community. Though the Mississippian era lasted from about the year 1000 to the early 1700s, it flourished here at Shiloh only from 1100 to 1300.
Their pottery - more sophisticated than their ancestors' pots - had distinctive arched rims and incised bands of parallel lines or line-filled triangles.
The Mississippian-the ancient people who lived here-were unlike their ancestors in several ways. Instead of being nomadic hunter-gatherers, they were farmers who devised an agricultural lifestyle based on corn. They settled in towns along the Mississippi, the Tennessee, and other southeastern river-ways and traded goods with other American Indians in the eastern United States.
Mississippians developed a leadership system of hereditary chiefdoms and built mounds for governmental buildings, temples, and notable burials. At various times leaders may have come from different, opposing clans within the community. Though the Mississippian era lasted from about the year 1000 to the early 1700s, it flourished here at Shiloh only from 1100 to 1300.
Their pottery - more sophisticated than their ancestors' pots - had distinctive arched rims and incised bands of parallel lines or line-filled triangles.
Erected by National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior.
Location. 35° 8.468′ N, 88° 19.662′ W. Marker is in Shiloh, Tennessee, in Hardin County. Marker
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is on Riverside Drive. Marker is located at the Orientation Shelter Shiloh Indian Mounds National Historic Landmark Interpretive Trail. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: Riverside Dr, Shiloh TN 38376, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Credits. This page was last revised on August 16, 2017. It was originally submitted on August 14, 2017, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA. This page has been viewed 213 times since then and 8 times this year. Photo1. submitted on August 14, 2017, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.