Crossroads, p. 29
THE MISSISSIPIAN ERA
(A.D. 900 TO A.D. 1541)
When the Plum Bayou people and other groups in the Mississippi Valley combined the domesticated plants of the eastern agricultural complex of North America with corn and other domesticated plants from Mexico they laid the foundation for the Mississippian way of life, a way of life based solidly on agriculture, rather than on gathering wild plant foods. From A.D. 900 on, more places like Toltec began to appear in the Mississippi Valley, from Memphis north of St. Louis, and Toltec itself was soon overshadowed. Between A.D. 900 and A.D. 1200 the people of this area, whom archeologists call the Mississippians, went from being part-time gardeners who still depended on the old reliable wild foods-nuts, seeds, meat, and fish-to being almost full-time farmers. And their population exploded.
(People of the Mississippian era in Arkansas began to base a way of life solidly on full-time farming, or agriculture.)
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