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Swift Creek Culture

100 – 800
CultureNorth America

Middle Woodland archaeological culture of Georgia, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee, known for elaborately stamped ceramics and mound-building; contemporaneous with and often described as 'Hopewellian' in its far-flung exchange contacts.

Gave way to successor Woodland and early Mississippian-period cultures across the Southeast by c. 800 CE (e.g. Weeden Island and related traditions).

Borders in 300 · drawn from 2 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Swift Creek Culture — the shape you scrub through changes in 100 · 300.

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