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| Shelter/Settlement |
- A few houses -- may have been round
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- An acre village with seven round houses and a few small outbuildings
- Stockade around whole village
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- Stockade surrounding platform mound
- Thatch-roof huts -- a round burial hut is pictured in the article; rectangular houses and public houses are described in the reading
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| Food |
- Some agriculture (maize, sunflower)
- Wild foods (acorns, hickory nuts)
- Hunting (deer, squirrel, rabbits)
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- Agriculture (corn, bean, squash)
- Gathering (nuts, berries)
- Hunting (deer, small mammals, fish)
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- Hunting, fishing, and gathering, but mostly corn agriculture
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| Containers/Tools |
- Pottery (broken pieces were found)
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- Pottery -- simple stamped. This design consists of a series of parallel lines running in one direction that people etched on a wooden paddle; the design was transferred on the wet clay by striking the paddle against it.
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- Pottery with geometric designs, some were used to hold cremations.
- It can also be inferred that there were projectile points because hunting is mentioned in the article, and either spear or hooks because fishing is mentioned.
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| Culture (including burial practices |
- Most archaeologists believe these were small villages
- Pits used for food cupboards, then garbage pits
- Burial practices -- round or oval graves, knees were brought up to the chest, some had large rocks at the feet of the deceased
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- Burials inside or just outside homes -- sealed with timbers or rocks, burial offerings, shell decorations on burial garments, clay pots of food
- Community ceremonies which included feasts
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- Ceremonial and/or political centers -- Town Creek temples and civic buildings set atop earthen platform mounds
- Social and political hierarchies, with priests and chiefs
- Religious symbolism artistically represented in jewelry and ritual items
- Corn agriculture and a variety of ceremonies surrounding it -- Busk ceremony
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