Woodland culture

American  

noun

Archaeology.

1. a long pre-Columbian tradition characterized by the corded pottery of a hunting and later agricultural people of the eastern U.S. noted for the construction of burial mounds and other structures and dating from c1000 b.c. to a.d. 1700.

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Example Sentences

Carbon dating from the site on the Deuter land indicated that the site had been used about 500 years before Columbus by people archaeologists characterize simply as a Woodland culture.

From Washington Times