ABSTRACT
Introduction As in every other region of North America, the peoples of the northern portion of the Eastern Woodlands worked with the constraints and the potentials of their environments and their ingenuity. The northern portion of the Eastern Woodlands (Figure 10.1) was the center of burial mound building during the heyday of Adena and Hopewell cultures (see Chapter 5). The mound builders had flourished until around 400 CE, depending in part on plant domesticates of their own creation and building far-flung trade and exchange networks.
