TheTroyville culture is anarchaeological culture in areas ofLouisiana andArkansas in the LowerMississippi valley in theSoutheastern Woodlands. It was a Baytown Period culture[1] and lasted from 400 to 700 CE during theLate Woodland period. It was contemporaneous with the Coastal Troyville andBaytown cultures (all three had evolved from theMarksville Hopewellian peoples) and was succeeded by theColes Creek culture.[1] Where the Baytown peoples builtdispersed settlements, the Troyville people instead continued building major earthwork centers.[2][3]
The Troyville-Coles Creek people lived on gathered wild plants and local domesticates, and maize was of only minor importance.[4] Acorns, persimmons, palmetto, maygrass, and squash were all more important than maize.[4] Tobacco was cultivated as well, and protein came from deer and smaller mammals, but the bounty of the region kept maize from being adopted as a staple until as late as the thirteenth century CE.[4]
| Site | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DePrato Mounds |  | A multimound complex located in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, radiocarbon and decorated pottery dated to about 600 CE during the Troyville/Coles Creek period.[5] |
| Greenhouse site |  | A multimound site inAvoyelles Parish, Louisiana from the Troyville-Coles Creek Period[6] |
| Marsden Mounds | A multimound site inRichland Parish, Louisiana nearDelhi, Louisiana, with aPoverty Point period component (1500 BCE) and a Troyville-Coles Creek component (400 to 1200 CE).[7] | |
| Peck Mounds |  | A multimound site from the Late Troyville-Early Coles Creek period located inCatahoula Parish, Louisiana[8] |
| Troyville Earthworks |  | A large multimound site with components dating from 100 BCE to 700 CE. It once had the tallest mound in Louisiana at 82 feet (25 m) in height. It is located in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana in the town ofJonesville.[9] It is thetype site for the culture. |
| Venable Mound | A single mound site with components from the Troyville, Coles Creek and Plaquemine periods, located inMorehouse Parish, Louisiana[10] |
| Baytown sites | | |
|---|---|---|
| Troyville sites | ||
