Note: These are fringe groups in relation to Middle and Lower phases,
living in more wooded regions perhaps, where game was
especially abundant and topography less favorable to
plant-raising by a backward culture and where the social
impetus for high cultural development was largely lacking
Artifacts are a mixture of Woodland and Mississippi types
Generally a single pottery ware with both elongated and globular pots
is characteristic and there is little other specialization of
form
A hunting-collecting economy with plant-raising probably in
garden-like plots
Large and small villages
A social development similar to but simpler than the Middle Phase,
probably a combination of Woodland and Mississippi elements
A religion based on plant-raising but probably with considerable
emphasis on chief animals hunted.
Sacred groves and shrines, possibly temples in some of larger villages
No pyramidal mounds
Dead buried in mounds and in cemeteries