Middle Woodland archaeological culture of the Lower Mississippi, Yazoo, and Tensas valleys and the Gulf Coast to Mobile Bay, part of the Hopewell interaction sphere and considered ancestral to the historic Natchez and Taensa peoples.
Evolved into the successor Baytown and Troyville cultures by c. 400 CE, and later into Coles Creek and Plum Bayou; genealogically linked to the historic Natchez and Taensa.
Core archaeological chronology and phase sequence for the Marksville culture.