Troyville and Baytown cultures map HRoe 2011

The Troyville culture is an

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in areas of

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and

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in the Lower

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valley in the

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. It was a Baytown Period culture and lasted from 400 to 700 CE during the Late Woodland period. It was contemporaneous with the Coastal Troyville and

Baytown culture The Baytown culture was a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that existed from 300 to 700 CE in the lower Mississippi River Valley, consisting of sites in eastern Arkansas, western Tennessee, Louisiana, and western Mississippi. The Baytown Sit ...

s (all three had evolved from the Marksville Hopewellian peoples) and was succeeded by the

Coles Creek culture Coles Creek culture is a Late Woodland archaeological culture in the Lower Mississippi valley in the Southeastern Woodlands. It followed the Troyville culture. The period marks a significant change in the cultural history of the area. Population ...

. Where the Baytown peoples built dispersed settlements, the Troyville people instead continued building major earthwork centers.

Subsistence

The Troyville-Coles Creek people lived on gathered wild plants and local domesticates, and maize was of only minor importance. Acorns, persimmons, palmetto, maygrass, and squash were all more important than maize. 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.

Known Troyville culture sites

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{{Authority control Late Woodland period Archaeological cultures of North America 4th-century establishments 8th-century disestablishments in North America

Subsistence

Known Troyville culture sites

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