The Glacial Kame Culture was an Archaic people of the Great Lakes region who practiced kame-burial (interring dead on glacier-deposited gravel hills) and made use of float copper and marine shells.
Faded from the archaeological record by approximately 1000 BCE as Late Archaic lifeways in the Great Lakes gave way to Early Woodland period cultures; no single named successor.
Survey of Great Lakes Archaic cultures including burial practices.
Covers the Great Lakes Archaic, including ochre burial complexes and Old Copper / float-copper use that characterise the Glacial Kame culture.