The territory of Louisiana was first populated by
hunter-gatherers roughly 10,000 years ago; first traces of permanent
settlement, ushering in the Archaic
period, appear at about 5,500 years ago.
The area
formed part of the Eastern
Agricultural Complex. The Marksville
culture emerges about 2,000 years
ago out of the earlier Tchefuncte
culture. It is considered ancestral to the Natchez and Taensa peoples. About 1,000 years ago, the Mississippian culture emerged from the Woodland period. The emergence of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex coincides with the adoption of maize agriculture and chiefdom-level complex social
organization beginning in c. 1200 CE. The Mississippian culture mostly
disappeared before the 16th century, with the exception of some Natchez communities that maintained
Mississippian cultural practices into the 18th century.
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