Swift Creek culture

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The Swift Creek culture was a Middle Woodland period archaeological culture in Georgia and Florida dating to around 100-500 AD. Swift Creek ceremonial practices and burial complex are referred to technically as the Yent-Green Point complex. The Swift Creek culture was contemporaneous with and interacted with the Hopewell culture, and Swift Creek is often described as "Hopewellian."

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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