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Point Peninsula Complex

600 BC – 700
CultureNorth America

A Middle Woodland pottery-and-exchange horizon across Ontario, upstate New York, and (by ~300 BCE-1 CE) as far as Maine and the Maritime Peninsula - the archaeological bridge between the Adena/Hopewell interaction sphere and the emergence of the historically-named Iroquoian and Algonquian nations of the region.

Gradually succeeded by the Owasco horizon and, in the St. Lawrence valley, by the ancestors of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, as maize horticulture and larger palisaded villages emerged in the Late Woodland period after ~700-900 CE.

Borders in 200 · drawn from 2 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Point Peninsula Complex — the shape you scrub through changes in 600 BC · 200.

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