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Mound 72 is the most impressive burial mound of all, and is the final resting place of some literally highly decorated individuals that can only have had a very important and high standing within their society. The amount of accompanying skeletons found at this mound suggests mass human sacrifice. Maize farming complemented the traditional north american crops such as qash in that they could be grown together. And we can feel somewhat confident that the fertile banks of the mississippi river enabled mississippians to be able to settle into a fully sedentary life stale. Diet would have been supplemented by advancing fishing techniques, including capturing fish from the rivers by poisoning them first. Certainly shell fish would have been captured from