A Middle-to-Late Woodland horticultural culture on the Grand River and Niagara Peninsula, marked by early maize cultivation and increasing sedentism - the direct archaeological bridge into the Ontario Iroquoian tradition that produced the historic Neutral, Wendat (Huron), and Petun (Tionontati) confederacies.
Developed into the Glen Meyer culture and the broader Ontario Iroquois tradition after c. 1000 CE, which by c. 1300 CE crystallized into the historically documented Neutral, Wendat, and Petun/Tionontati nations.
Broad deep-time context for how North American archaeological horizon sequences like this one are built and dated.