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The late Woodland period was a time of apparent population dispersal, although populations do not appear to have decreased. In most areas construction of burial mounds decreased markedly, as did long-distance trade in exotic materials. At the same time, bow and arrow technology gradually overtook the use of the spear and atlatl.
The Plains Woodland period or Plains Woodland tradition refers to an archaeological period and group of cultures that existed across the Great Plains of North America approximately 2500–200 Before Present (BP). It was preceded by the Plains Archaic period and succeeded by the Plains Village period.
Archaic period, (Archaic stage) (8000 – 1000 BCE) by Time Period Early Archaic 8000 – 6000 BCE Plano cultures: 9,000 – 5,000 BCE Paleo-Arctic tradition: 8000 – 5000 BCE Maritime Archaic: Red Paint People: 3000 – 1000 BCE Middle Archaic 6000 – 3000 BCE Chihuahua tradition: c. 6000 BCE – c. 250 CE Watson Brake and Lower Mississippi ...
The Adena culture was a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that existed from 500 BCE [1] to 100 CE, [2] in a time known as the Early Woodland period. [3] The Adena culture refers to what were probably a number of related Native American societies sharing a burial complex and ceremonial system.
Grave Creek mound was created during the Woodland time period (late Adena Period around 1000 BC to about 1 AD). The people who lived in West Virginia during this time are among those groups classified as Mound Builders. This particular tumulus or burial mound was built in successive stages over a period of a hundred years.
500 BC–AD 1000: Plains Woodland period on the Great Plains [2] 300 BC: Mogollon people, possibly descended from the Cochise tradition, appear in southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico. 200 BC–500 AD: The Hopewell tradition begins flourishing in much of the East, with copper mining centered in the Great Lakes region. [1]
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Woodland period sites in Canada (13 P) Early Woodland period (1 C, 6 P) Late Woodland period (7 C, 35 P) Middle Woodland period (12 P) H. Hopewellian peoples (7 C, 34 ...