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The Pensacola culture was a regional variation of the Mississippian culture along the Gulf Coast of the United States that lasted from 1100 to 1700 CE.[1]

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  1. 63 relations: Alabama River, Apalachee Province, Archaeological culture, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Baldwin County, Alabama, Biloxi people, Biloxi, Mississippi, Bottle Creek Indian Mounds, Butcherpen Mound, Cemetery, Choctaw, Choctawhatchee Bay, Coles Creek culture, Dauphin Island, Alabama, Escambia County, Florida, Etowah Indian Mounds, Florida panhandle, Fort Walton culture, Fort Walton Mound, Grog (clay), Gulf Coast of the United States, Hernando de Soto, Hickory Ridge Cemetery Archeological Site, Holly Bluff site, Indian Mound Park (Dauphin Island, Alabama), Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park, List of Mississippian sites, Mabila, Maize, Midden, Mississippi River Delta, Mississippian culture, Mississippian culture pottery, Mobile Bay, Mobile County, Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, Mobile–Tensaw River Delta, Moundville Archaeological Site, Muscogee, Muskogean languages, Narváez expedition, Native Americans in the United States, Naval Live Oaks Cemetery, Okaloosa County, Florida, Oyster, Paramount chief, Pensacola Bay, Pensacola people, Perdido Bay, Plaquemine culture, ... Expand index (13 more) »

  2. Archaeological sites in Alabama
  3. Shell middens in the United States

Alabama River

The Alabama River, in the U.S. state of Alabama, is formed by the Tallapoosa and Coosa rivers, which unite about north of Montgomery, near the town of Wetumpka.

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Apalachee Province

Apalachee Province was the area in the Panhandle of the present-day U.S. state of Florida inhabited by the Native American peoples known as the Apalachee at the time of European contact. Pensacola culture and Apalachee Province are archaeological sites in Florida.

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Archaeological culture

An archaeological culture is a recurring assemblage of types of artifacts, buildings and monuments from a specific period and region that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society.

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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1488/90/92"Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez (1492?-1559?)." American Eras. Vol. 1: Early American Civilizations and Exploration to 1600. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 50-51. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 10 December 2014. after 19 May 1559) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition.

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Baldwin County, Alabama

Baldwin County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama, on the Gulf coast.

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Biloxi people

The Biloxi tribe are Native Americans of the Siouan language family.

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Biloxi, Mississippi

Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.

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Bottle Creek Indian Mounds

Bottle Creek Indian Mounds (1BA2) is an archaeological site owned and monitored by the Alabama Historical Commission located on a low swampy island within the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta north of Mobile, Alabama, United States. Pensacola culture and Bottle Creek Indian Mounds are archaeological sites in Alabama.

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Butcherpen Mound

The Butcherpen Mound (8SR29) is a prehistoric archaeological site associated with the Weeden Island culture, located near Gulf Breeze, in the U.S. state of Florida. Pensacola culture and Butcherpen Mound are archaeological sites in Florida.

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Cemetery

A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.

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Choctaw

The Choctaw (Chahta) are a Native American people originally based in the Southeastern Woodlands, in what is now Alabama and Mississippi. Pensacola culture and Choctaw are native American history of Alabama.

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Choctawhatchee Bay

Choctawhatchee Bay is a bay in the Emerald Coast region of the Florida Panhandle.

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Coles Creek culture

Coles Creek culture is a Late Woodland archaeological culture in the Lower Mississippi valley in the Southeastern Woodlands.

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Dauphin Island, Alabama

Dauphin Island is an island town in Mobile County, Alabama, United States, on a barrier island of the same name, in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Escambia County, Florida

Escambia County is the westernmost and oldest county in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Etowah Indian Mounds

Etowah Indian Mounds (9BR1) are a archaeological site in Bartow County, Georgia, south of Cartersville.

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Florida panhandle

The Florida panhandle (also known as West Florida and Northwest Florida) is the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Fort Walton culture

The Fort Walton culture is the term used by archaeologists for a late prehistoric Native American archaeological culture that flourished in southeastern North America from approximately 1200~1500 CE and is associated with the historic Apalachee people. Pensacola culture and fort Walton culture are archaeological sites in Florida and native American history of Florida.

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Fort Walton Mound

The Fort Walton Mound (8OK6) is an archaeological site located in present-day Fort Walton Beach, Florida, United States. Pensacola culture and Fort Walton Mound are archaeological sites in Florida.

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Grog (clay)

Grog, also known as firesand and chamotte, is a raw material usually made from crushed and ground potsherds, reintroduced into crude clay to temper it before making ceramic ware.

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Gulf Coast of the United States

The Gulf Coast of the United States, also known as the Gulf South or the South Coast, is the coastline along the Southern United States where they meet the Gulf of Mexico.

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Hernando de Soto

Hernando de Soto (1497 – 21 May 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula.

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Hickory Ridge Cemetery Archeological Site

The Hickory Ridge Cemetery Archeological Site (8ES1280) is an archaeological site in Pensacola, Escambia County Florida. Pensacola culture and Hickory Ridge Cemetery Archeological Site are archaeological sites in Florida and native American history of Florida.

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Holly Bluff site

The Holly Bluff site (22 YZ 557), sometimes known as the Lake George Site, and locally as "The Mound Place," is an archaeological site that is a type site for the Lake George phase of the prehistoric Plaquemine culture period of the area. Pensacola culture and Holly Bluff site are Shell middens in the United States.

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Indian Mound Park (Dauphin Island, Alabama)

Indian Mound Park, also known as Shell Mound Park or Indian Shell Mound Park, is a park and bird refuge located on the northern shore of Dauphin Island, a barrier island of Mobile County, Alabama in the United States. Pensacola culture and Indian Mound Park (Dauphin Island, Alabama) are archaeological sites in Alabama and Shell middens in the United States.

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Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park

Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park (8LE1) is one of the most important archaeological sites in Florida, the capital of chiefdom and ceremonial center of the Fort Walton Culture inhabited from 1050–1500. Pensacola culture and Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park are archaeological sites in Florida.

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List of Mississippian sites

This is a list of Mississippian sites.

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Mabila

Mabila (also spelled Mavila, Mavilla, Maubila, or Mauvilla, as influenced by Spanish or French transliterations) was a small fortress town known to the paramount chief Tuskaloosa in 1540, in a region of present-day central Alabama. Pensacola culture and Mabila are native American history of Alabama.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.

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Midden

A midden is an old dump for domestic waste.

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Mississippi River Delta

The Mississippi River Delta is the confluence of the Mississippi River with the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana, southeastern United States.

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Mississippian culture

The Mississippian culture was a Native American civilization that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1600, varying regionally.

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Mississippian culture pottery

Mississippian culture pottery is the ceramic tradition of the Mississippian culture (800 to 1600 CE) found as artifacts in archaeological sites in the American Midwest and Southeast.

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Mobile Bay

Mobile Bay is a shallow inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, lying within the state of Alabama in the United States.

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Mobile County, Alabama

Mobile County is a county located in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Alabama.

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Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.

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Mobile–Tensaw River Delta

The Mobile–Tensaw River Delta is the largest river delta and wetland in Alabama.

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Moundville Archaeological Site

Moundville Archaeological Site, also known as the Moundville Archaeological Park, is a Mississippian culture archaeological site on the Black Warrior River in Hale County, near the modern city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Pensacola culture and Moundville Archaeological Site are native American history of Alabama.

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Muscogee

The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek or just Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy (in the Muscogee language; English), are a group of related Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands Sequoyah Research Center and the American Native Press Archives in the United States.

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Muskogean languages

Muskogean (also Muskhogean, Muskogee) is a Native American language family spoken in different areas of the Southeastern United States.

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Narváez expedition

The Narváez expedition was a Spanish expedition started in 1527 that was intended to explore Florida and establish colonial settlements. Pensacola culture and Narváez expedition are native American history of Florida.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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The Naval Live Oaks Cemetery (also known as the Head Site and 8SR36) is a prehistoric cemetery associated with the Pensacola culture, a regional variant of the Mississippian culture.

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Okaloosa County, Florida

Okaloosa County is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, extending from the Gulf of Mexico to the Alabama state line.

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Oyster

Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats.

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Paramount chief

A paramount chief is the English-language designation for a King/Queen or the highest-level political leader in a regional or local polity or country administered politically with a chief-based system.

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Pensacola Bay

Pensacola Bay is a bay located in the northwestern part of Florida, United States, known as the Florida Panhandle.

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Pensacola people

The Pensacola were a Native American people who lived in the western part of what is now the Florida Panhandle and southwestern Alabama for centuries before first contact with Europeans until early in the 18th century.

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Perdido Bay

Perdido Bay is a bay at the mouth of and draining the Perdido River, a designated Outstanding Florida Waters river, in Baldwin County, Alabama and Escambia County, Florida, United States.

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Plaquemine culture

The Plaquemine culture was an archaeological culture (circa 1200 to 1700 CE) centered on the Lower Mississippi River valley.

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Platform mound

A platform mound is any earthwork or mound intended to support a structure or activity.

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Santa Rosa County, Florida

Santa Rosa County is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Selma, Alabama

Selma is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, in the Black Belt region of south central Alabama and extending to the west.

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Shoal

In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water close to the surface or above it, which poses a danger to navigation.

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Sims site

The Sims site (16SC2), also known as Sims Place site, is an archaeological site located in Saint Charles Parish, Louisiana, near the town of Paradis.

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St. Charles Parish, Louisiana

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Tombigbee River

The Tombigbee River is a tributary of the Mobile River, approximately 200 mi (325 km) long, in the U.S. states of Mississippi and Alabama.

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Town square

A square (or plaza, public square, or urban square) is an open public space used for various activities.

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Tristán de Luna y Arellano

Tristán de Luna y Arellano (1510 – September 16, 1573) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador of the 16th century.

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Tunica people

The Tunica people are a group of linguistically and culturally related Native American tribes in the Mississippi River Valley, which include the Tunica (also spelled Tonica, Tonnica, and Thonnica); the Yazoo; the Koroa (Akoroa, Courouais); and possibly the Tioux.

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Tunica-Biloxi

The Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe, (Yoroniku-Halayihku) formerly known as the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana, is a federally recognized tribe of primarily Tunica and Biloxi people, located in east central Louisiana.

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Weeden Island culture

The Weeden Island cultures are a group of related archaeological cultures that existed during the Late Woodland period (500 - 1000 CE) of the North American Southeast. Pensacola culture and Weeden Island culture are archaeological sites in Florida and native American history of Florida.

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Woodland period

In the classification of archaeological cultures of North America, the Woodland period of North American pre-Columbian cultures spanned a period from roughly 1000 BCE to European contact in the eastern part of North America, with some archaeologists distinguishing the Mississippian period, from 1000 CE to European contact as a separate period.

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See also

Archaeological sites in Alabama

Shell middens in the United States

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensacola_culture

, Platform mound, Santa Rosa County, Florida, Selma, Alabama, Shoal, Sims site, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, Tombigbee River, Town square, Tristán de Luna y Arellano, Tunica people, Tunica-Biloxi, Weeden Island culture, Woodland period.