Boatstones and bar “amulets”
L-shaped pipe, long-stemmed
Crude flint arrowheads
Flexed and semi-flexed skeletons in mound graves and tomb chambers
Except for above, much like Initial Phase
Spear and spearthrower still the chief weapon, weights tied (?) to
spearthrower
Small hamlets
Bow and arrow known but as yet ineffective as a practical weapon
Otherwise very similar to Initial Phase
Religion probably with shamans rather than priests and a mixture of
Initial and Classic Phase religious beliefs and practices and
superstitions
Some considerable sanctity probably still attached to tobacco, tobacco
smoke and the pipe
Shamans undoubtedly still practiced the healing arts (as well as black
magic) and possibly simple religious rites