The broad archaeological era across eastern North America between the Archaic hunter-gatherers and the rise of Mississippian and named contact-era nations - mound-building, pottery, and, late in the period, the beginnings of maize horticulture, spanning modern New England, the mid-Atlantic, the Great Lakes, and the Southeast.
Succeeded, region by region, by the Mississippian culture in the river valleys of the Southeast/Midwest and by the emergence of the historically documented Algonquian- and Iroquoian-speaking nations recorded elsewhere in this atlas (Wampanoag, Massachusett, Lenape, Haudenosaunee, etc.) by the time of European contact.
A major edited synthesis of Woodland-period archaeology across the Southeast, directly relevant to the southern reach of this horizon.
Broad, well-regarded deep-time context for the archaeological-period framework this record uses.