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Woodland · c. 1,200 – 200 BCE

Early Woodland

Fired pottery becomes common, and it arrives with a change in how people lived rather than as an isolated invention — heavy, breakable containers repay their cost only once you are staying put.

Date range
1,200 BCE – 200 BCE
Key terms
First pottery · Cord-marking · Burial mounds
Terminology used in
Northeast & Great Lakes, Southeast

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