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Yazoo Mounds
Plaquemine–Mississippian (700–1500 CE) · Plaquemine-Mississippian (Yazoo Basin)
Major Yazoo Basin mound center (700–1500 CE) with 20+ mounds, plazas and bastioned embankment at Lake George.
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Plaquemine–historic Natchez (1200–1730 CE, observed 1682–1729) · Natchez (Plaquemine descendant – Muskogean)
Historic Natchez capital (1682–1729) directly observed by French colonists (Iberville, Le Page du Pratz), linking archaeology to eyewitness chiefdom: two platform mounds—Great Sun's Mound A (3.5 m,…
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Plaquemine–Mississippian (700–1500 CE) · Plaquemine-Mississippian (Yazoo Basin)
Major Yazoo Basin mound center (700–1500 CE) with 20+ mounds, plazas and bastioned embankment at Lake George.
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Late Woodland to Mississippian (Coles Creek – Lake George phase 700–1500 CE) · Plaquemine / Mississippian (Lake George)
Yazoo Basin Mississippian–Plaquemine center (700–1500 CE, peak 1300–1500): 25 mounds over 40 ha including 8-m-high concial-temple Mound C (55×40 m), flat-top Mound A 12 m high (80×60 m) second…
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Plaquemine to Historic Natchez (1200–1730 CE) · Plaquemine / Natchez (Muskogean)
Natchez historic capital (1200–1730 CE) — 3 Plaquemine mounds and plaza where French witnessed 1725 sacrifice.
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Plaquemine Mississippian Emerald phase 1250–1600 CE · Plaquemine (Natchez)
Second-largest mound in N America, 10.7 m terraced pyramid, 1250–1600 CE.
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Plaquemine Mississippian Coles Creek-Winterville 900–1450 CE · Coles Creek / Plaquemine
16.7 m truncated pyramid center of 23-mound plaza, 1200–1400 CE.
