 There were multiple chiefdoms that never controlled large areas or lasted more than a few hundred years.The Caddoan Mississippian culture appears to have emerged from earlier groups of Woodland period groups, the Fourche Maline and Mossy Grove culture peoples who were living in the area around 200 BC to 800 AD.By 800 AD early Caddoan society had begun to coalesce into one of the earlier Mississippian cultures.