The Tchula period is an early period in an archaeological chronology, covering the early development of permanent settlements, agriculture, and large societies.

The Tchula period (800 BCE – 200 CE) encompasses the Tchefuncte and Lake Cormorant cultures during the Woodland period around the coastal plains of Louisiana and northward into southern Arkansas and east into the Yazoo Basin in Mississippi.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ^ The Woodland Southeast. University of Alabama Press; 2002. ISBN 978-0-8173-1137-7. p. 69–.
  2. ^ Charles H. McNutt. Prehistory of the Central Mississippi Valley. University of Alabama Press; 30 May 1996. ISBN 978-0-8173-0807-0. p. 142–143.
  3. ^ Ford, Janet (1990). "The Tchula Connection: Early Woodland Culture and Burial Mounds in North Mississippi". Southeastern Archaeology. 9 (2): 103–115. JSTOR 40712929.


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