The artistic skills and earthwork mound-building of…
1288 CE to 1299 CE
The Spiro Mounds, near the Arkansas River in present-day southeastern Oklahoma, are some of the most elaborate mounds in the United States.
They are made by Mississippian ancestors of the historic Caddo and Wichita tribes, in what is considered the westernmost point of the Mississippian culture.
The Caddo are farmers and enjoy good growing conditions most of the time.
The Piney Woods, the geographic area where they live, is affected by the Great Drought from 1276–1299 CE, which covers an area extending to present-day California and disrupts many Native American cultures.
Archeological evidence has confirmed that the cultural continuity is unbroken from prehistory to the present among these peoples.
The Caddoan Mississippian people are the direct ancestors of the historic Caddo people and related Caddo-language speakers who will encounter the first Europeans, as well as of the modern Caddo Nation of Oklahoma.
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