Marksville culture

Evidence from excavations of burial mounds from this period suggest they were constructed for persons of high social status, and contained refined grave goods of imported exotic materials, such as copper panpipes, earspools, bracelets and beads, rare minerals, stone platform pipes, mica figurines, marine shells, freshwater pearls, and greenstone celts.

[2] The high-status leaders organized community life, and officiated at burial ceremonies, an important part of the Marksville Culture.

[1] The foraging and subsistence practices of the Marksville culture followed the same pattern of the Archaic and Tchefuncte periods.

[7] This decorated pottery was made primarily for ceremonial uses, with other, plainer utilitarian ware for daily use.

[2][9] Aside from pottery, the Marksville culture also made jewelries and other artifacts that were usually created as part of the burial ceremony.