Troyville culture

Archaeological culture in areas of Louisiana and Arkansas, United States

Map showing the geographic extent of the Baytown, Coastal Troyville and Troyville cultures

The Troyville culture is an archaeological culture in areas of Louisiana and Arkansas in the Lower Mississippi valley in the Southeastern Woodlands. It was a Baytown Period culture^[1] and lasted from 400 to 700 CE during the Late Woodland period. It was contemporaneous with the Coastal Troyville and Baytown cultures (all three had evolved from the Marksville Hopewellian peoples) and was succeeded by the Coles Creek culture.^[1] Where the Baytown peoples built dispersed settlements, the Troyville people instead continued building major earthwork centers.^[2][3]

Subsistence

The Troyville-Coles Creek people lived on gathered wild plants and local domesticates, and maize was of only minor importance.^[4] Acorns, persimmons, palmetto, maygrass, and squash were all more important than maize.^[4] Tobacco was cultivated as well, and protein came from deer and smaller mammals, but the bounty of the region kept maize from being adopted as a staple until as late as the thirteenth century CE.^[4]

Known Troyville culture sites

See also

• Culture, phase, and chronological table for the Mississippi Valley

References

1. Raymond Fogelson (September 20, 2004). Handbook of North American Indians : Southeast. Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 978-0-16-072300-1.
2. "Southeastern Prehistory : Late Woodland Period". NPS.GOV. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
3. Timothy P Denham; José Iriarte; Luc Vrydaghs, eds. (2008-12-10). Rethinking Agriculture: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives. Left Coast Press. pp. 199–204. ISBN 978-1-59874-261-9.
4. Snow, Dean R. (2010). Archaeology of Native North America. New York: Prentice-Hall. p. 244.
5. "Indian Mounds of Northeast Louisiana : Deprato Mounds". Archived from the original on 2012-12-24. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
6. "Louisiana Prehistory:Marksville, Troyville-Coles Creek, and Caddo". Archived from the original on 2012-01-10. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
7. "Indian Mounds of Northeast Louisiana:Marsden Mounds". Archived from the original on 2013-05-14. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
8. "Indian Mounds of Northeast Louisiana:Peck Mounds". Archived from the original on 2012-12-24. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
9. "Indian Mounds of Northeast Louisiana: Transylvania Mounds". Archived from the original on 2014-03-20. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
10. "Indian Mounds of Northeast Louisiana:Venable Mound". Archived from the original on 2012-12-24. Retrieved 2011-10-20.

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