Woodland culture

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.

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