10 Facts About Plaquemine culture

Plaquemine culture was an archaeological culture centered on the Lower Mississippi River valley.

The type site for the Plaquemine culture is the Medora site in Louisiana; while other examples include the Anna, Emerald, Holly Bluff, and Winterville sites in Mississippi.

Plaquemine culture was a Mississippian culture variant centered on the Mississippi River valley, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to just south of its junction with the Arkansas River, encompassing the Yazoo River basin and Natchez Bluffs in western Mississippi, and the lower Ouachita and Red River valleys in southeastern Arkansas, and eastern Louisiana.

The name for the culture is taken from the proximity of Medora to the nearby town of Plaquemine.

Archaeologists debate whether Plaquemine culture is a completely local development or if the changes in their society that led from Coles Creek to Plaquemine culture was a result of contact with their Mississippian neighbors.

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Plaquemine culture period saw the re-purposing and expansion of sites occupied during the Coles Creek period.

Unlike Mississippian settlements which were often large nucleated villages, Plaquemine culture settlements were usually barely populated ceremonial civic centers whose only permanent residents were the elites and their families, priests, and their attendants and servants.

Now surrounded on all sides by Mississippians, several Plaquemine culture groups persisted into the historic era in the Natchez Bluffs area.

Potters cut designs into the surface of the wet clay and, like their Caddoan contemporaries, the Plaquemine culture peoples engraved designs on pots after they were fired.

Plaquemine culture peoples had undecorated pots that they used for ordinary daily tasks.