Swift Creek culture

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The Swift Creek culture was a Middle Woodland period archaeological culture in Georgia , Alabama , Florida , South Carolina , and Tennessee dating to around 100-800 AD. Swift Creek ceremonial practices and burial complexes are referred to technically as the Yent-Green Point complex in Florida. The Swift Creek culture was contemporaneous with and interacted with the Hopewell culture; Swift Creek is often described as "Hopewellian." The type site for the Swift Creek culture was the Swift Creek mound site, which was located in Bibb County, Georgia. The Leake Mounds are another significant Swift Creek Culture site from Georgia.

Swift Creek peoples practiced mound building but were generally non-sedentary, living by hunting, gathering/collecting, and fishing. Swift Creek is characterized by earthenware pottery with complicated stamped designs involving mostly curvilinear elements.

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• Kelly, A.R., and Betty A. Smith

1975 The Swift Creek Site, 9 Bi 3, Macon, Georgia. Ms. on file, Ocmulgee National Monument, Macon, Georgia.

• Snow, F.H.

1975 Swift Creek Designs and Distributions: A South Georgia Study.Early Georgia 3(2):38-59.

• Williams, M., and D.T. Elliott, editors

1998 A World Engraved: Archaeology of the Swift Creek Culture. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

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