Map showing geographical extent of Mississippian stone statues
Mill Creek chert is a type of chert found in Southern Illinois and heavily exploited by members of the Mississippian culture (800 to 1600 CE).[1] Artifacts made from this material are found in archaeological sites throughout the American Midwest and Southeast. It is named for a village and stream near the quarries, Mill Creek, Illinois and Mill Creek, a tributary of the Cache River.[2] The chert was used extensively for the production of utilitarian tools such as hoes and spades, and for polished ceremonial objects such as bifaces, spatulate celts and maces.
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MillCreekchert is a type of chert found in Southern Illinois and heavily exploited by members of the Mississippian culture (800 to 1600 CE). Artifacts...
Chert (/tʃɜːrt/) is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide...
the south, trading in such exotic items as copper, MillCreekchert, and whelk shells. MillCreekchert, most notably, was used in the production of hoes...
MillCreek or Millcreek may refer to: MillCreek, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality MillCreek, Cumberland, Nova Scotia...
examples of prehistoric stonework". The ceremonial objects are made from Dover chert, a type of flint found exclusively in the nearby Dover, Tennessee area....
earliest mounds in the Appalachian Summit along with the similarly aged Garden Creek Mound, both of which are in the French Broad River watershed. The latest...
Woodlands and Great Lakes. Muscogee Creek traditions include a Horned Serpent and a Tie-Snake, estakwvnayv in the Muscogee Creek language. These are sometimes...
surrendered and another 1,000 taken as slaves. In mid-1704 another large Creek raid captured more missions and large numbers of Apalachees. In both raids...
polities had begun. Coles Creek sites are found in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mississippi, and Texas. The Coles Creek culture is considered ancestral...
to the several southern Native American confederacies (the Choctaw and Creek peoples) who later emerged in the region. The modern city of Tuscaloosa...
Spiro plates Wulfing cache Duck River cache Long-nosed god maskette MillCreekchert Pottery Shell gorget Stone statuary Languages Caddoan Central Algonquian...
Spiro plates Wulfing cache Duck River cache Long-nosed god maskette MillCreekchert Pottery Shell gorget Stone statuary Languages Caddoan Central Algonquian...
spoken: Alabama, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (previously referred to as Creek), Koasati, and Mikasuki, as well as the now-extinct Apalachee, Houma, and...
variety of non-perishable materials, including marine shell, ceramics, chert (Duck River cache), carved stone, and copper (Wulfing cache and Etowah plates)...
among the Creek Nation, the US, and the state of Georgia military and political representatives. Tensions among the Upper Creek and Lower Creek towns increased...
network. Shells from the Gulf of Mexico, copper from Lake Superior and MillCreekchert have been found at the site. Aztalan was abandoned around 1200 AD....
although it may be very distantly related to the Muskogean languages of the Creek Confederacy. An early American geographer noted in his 1797 gazetteer that...
Ceremonial Complex, an extensive religious and trade network that brought MillCreekchert, whelk shells, and other exotic goods to the Parkin phase sites. The...
Spiro plates Wulfing cache Duck River cache Long-nosed god maskette MillCreekchert Pottery Shell gorget Stone statuary Languages Caddoan Central Algonquian...
playing the chunkey game long after European contact, including the Muscogee (Creeks), Chickasaw, Choctaw, and the Mandans, as witnessed by the artist George...
of Little Clifty Creek in Benton County, Arkansas. The Clifty Limestone is very sandy, light blue to bluish grey. The Penters Chert is a Devonian geologic...
Spiro plates Wulfing cache Duck River cache Long-nosed god maskette MillCreekchert Pottery Shell gorget Stone statuary Languages Caddoan Central Algonquian...
Spiro plates Wulfing cache Duck River cache Long-nosed god maskette MillCreekchert Pottery Shell gorget Stone statuary Languages Caddoan Central Algonquian...
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