Late Woodland
(ca.600 to 1650 A.D.)
During the Late Woodland period, a number of new cultural characteristics arise, the bow and arrow, commissary knives, triangular points, hoes. Agriculture first appears with maze, and squash, beans, being the major foodstuffs being cultivated . Late Woodland sites are generally smaller and more dispersed. Ceramics vesslis from this time period are thinner and cord marked.Diagnostic point type of Late Woodland are Madisons, Jack's Reefm Corner-notched, Racoon Side- notched, nodena.