Swift Creek culture

The Swift Creek culture was a Middle Woodland period archaeological culture in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee, dating to around 100-800 CE. In Florida, Swift Creek ceremonial practices and burial complexes are referred to technically as the Yent-Green Point complex. 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 in Georgia.

Swift Creek peoples practiced mound-building but were generally non-sedentary. Their sustenance resulted from hunting, gathering/collecting, and fishing. Swift Creek are characterized by earthenware pottery with complicated stamped designs, involving mostly curvilinear elements. Examples of a type of pottery decoration consisting of diamond-shaped checks found at the Swift Creek sites are also known from Hopewell sites in Ohio (such as Seip Earthworks, Rockhold, Harness, and Turner), and the Mann Site in southern Indiana[1] as well as the Crystal River Site in Florida.[2]

## Contents

* 1 See also
* 2 Notes
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## See also

* Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture
* Hopewell tradition
* List of Hopewell sites

## Notes

1. ↑ "Excavation and Archaeological Investigation at Barstow County's Leake Site-Evidence for Interaction". Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20110707213207/http://www.bartowdig.com/Mannsite.html. Retrieved 2010-01-03.
2. ↑ Weisman, Brent (1995). "Crystal River: Ceremonial Mound Center on the Florida Gulf Coast". Florida Archaeology 8: 85.

## References

* 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.

## External links

* Swift Creek Period, Frankie Snow, South Georgia College

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Hopewellian peoples

* Woodland period
* List of Hopewell sites
* Mound Builders
* List of archaeological periods (North America)

Ohio Hopewell|

* Beam Farm
* Benham Mound
* Cary Village Site
* Cedar-Bank Works
* Dunns Pond Mound
* Ellis Mounds
* Ety Enclosure
* Ety Habitation Site
* Fort Ancient
* Fortified Hill Works
* Great Hopewell Road
* High Banks Works
* Hopeton Earthworks
* Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
* Indian Mound Cemetery
* Keiter Mound
* Marietta Earthworks
* Moorehead Circle
* Mound of Pipes
* Nettle Lake Mound Group
* Newark Earthworks
* Oak Mounds
* Orators
* Perin Village Site
* Pollock Works
* Portsmouth Earthworks
* Rocky Fork Enclosures
* Rocky Fork Mounds
* Seip Earthworks and Dill Mounds District
* Shawnee Lookout
* Shriver Circle Earthworks
* Stubbs Earthworks
* Tremper Mound and Works
* Williamson Mound Archeological District

Crab Orchard culture|

* Carrier Mills Archaeological District
* Cleiman Mound
* Hubele Site
* Mann Site
* O'byams Fort site
* Wilson Site
* Yankeetown Site

Goodall Focus|

* Goodall Site
* Norton Mound Group

Havana Hopewell culture|

* Albany Mounds State Historic Site
* Dickson Mounds
* Duncan Farm
* Golden Eagle-Toppmeyer Site
* Kamp Mound Site
* Mound House site
* Naples Archeological District
* Naples Mound 8
* Ogden-Fettie Site
* Rockwell Mound
* Sinnissippi Mounds
* Toolesboro Mound Group

Kansas City Hopewell|

* Cloverdale archaeological site
* Renner Village Archeological Site
* Trowbridge Archeological Site

Marksville culture|

* Crooks Mound
* Grand Gulf Mound
* Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site
* Mott Archaeological Preserve

Miller culture|

* Bynum Mound and Village Site
* Ingomar Mound
* Miller Site
* Pharr Mounds
* Pinson Mounds

Point Peninsula Complex|

* Lewiston Mound
* Serpent Mounds Park
* LeVescounte Mounds

Swift Creek culture
Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture

* Crystal River Archaeological State Park
* Etowah Indian Mounds
* Leake Mounds
* Kolomoki Mounds
* Miner's Creek site
* Pierce Site
* Swift Creek mound site
* Third Gulf Breeze
* Yearwood site
* Yent Mound

Other Hopewellian peoples|

* Armstrong culture
* Copena culture
* Fourche Maline culture
* Laurel Complex
* Saugeen Complex
* Old Stone Fort (Tennessee)

Exotic trade items|

* Copper
* Galena
* Mica
* Fresh water pearls
* Obsidian
* Pipestone
* Sea shells

Related topics
Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley
Black drink
burial mound
Ceremonial pipe
Effigy mound
Hopewell pottery
Horned Serpent
Eastern Agricultural Complex
Underwater panther

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Pre-Columbian North America

Periods
Lithic
Archaic
Formative
Classic
Post-Classic

Archaeological
cultures|

* Adena
* Alachua
* Ancient Beringian
* Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)
* Baytown
* Belle Glade
* Buttermilk Creek Complex
* Caborn-Welborn
* Calf Creek
* Caloosahatchee
* Clovis
* Coles Creek
* Comondú
* Deptford
* Folsom
* Fort Ancient
* Fort Walton
* Fremont
* Glacial Kame
* Glades
* Hohokam
* Hopewell
* List of Hopewell sites
* La Jolla
* Las Palmas
* Leon-Jefferson
* Maritime Archaic
* Mississippian
* List of Mississippian sites
* Mogollon
* Monongahela
* Old Cordilleran
* Oneota
* Paleo-Arctic
* Paleo-Indians
* Patayan
* Plano
* Plaquemine
* Poverty Point
* Red Ocher
* Safety Harbor Culture
* Santa Rosa-Swift Creek
* St. Johns
* Steed-Kisker
* Tchefuncte
* Troyville
* Weeden Island

Archaeological
sites|

* Angel Mounds
* Anzick Clovis burial
* Bandelier National Monument
* Bastian
* Benson
* Blue Spring Shelter
* The Bluff Point Stoneworks
* Brewster
* Cahokia
* Candelaria Cave
* Casa Grande
* Chaco Canyon
* Coso Rock Art District
* Crystal River Archaeological State Park
* Cuarenta Casas
* Cueva de la Olla
* Eaker
* El Fin del Mundo
* El Vallecito
* Effigy Mounds National Monument
* Etowah Indian Mounds
* Eva
* Folsom Site
* Fort Ancient
* Fort Center
* Fort Juelson
* Four Mounds
* Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
* Glenwood
* Grimes Point
* Holly Bluff Site
* Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
* Horr's Island
* Huápoca
* Key Marco
* Kimball Village
* Kincaid Mounds
* Kolomoki Mounds
* Lake Jackson Mounds
* L'Anse aux Meadows
* Marksville
* Marmes Rockshelter
* Meadowcroft Rockshelter
* Mesa Verde
* Moaning Cavern
* Moorehead Circle
* Morrison Mounds
* Moundville
* Mummy Cave
* Nodena Site
* Ocmulgee National Monument
* Old Stone Fort
* Orwell Site
* Paquime
* Parkin Park
* Pinson Mounds
* Portsmouth Earthworks
* Poverty Point
* Pueblo Bonito
* Recapture Canyon
* Rock Eagle
* Rock Hawk
* Rosenstock Village Site
* Russell Cave National Monument
* Salmon Ruins
* Serpent Mound
* Sierra de San Francisco
* Spiro Mounds
* SunWatch
* Taos Pueblo
* Toltec Mounds
* Town Creek Indian Mound
* Turkey River Mounds
* Upward Sun River site
* Velda Mound
* West Oak Forest Earthlodge
* Windover
* Winterville
* Wupatki National Monument

Human
remains|

* Anzick-1
* Arlington Springs Man
* Buhl Woman
* Kennewick Man
* La Brea Woman
* Leanderthal Lady
* Melbourne Man
* Minnesota Woman
* Peñon woman
* Spirit Cave mummy
* Vero man

Miscellaneous|

* Aridoamerica
* Black drink
* Ceremonial pipe
* Chunkey
* Clovis point
* Container Revolution
* Eastern Agricultural Complex
* Eden point
* Effigy mound
* Falcon dancer
* Folsom point
* Green Corn Ceremony
* Horned Serpent
* Kiva
* Medicine wheel
* Metallurgy
* Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing
* Mound Builders
* N.A.G.P.R.A.
* Norse colonization of North America
* Oasisamerica
* Piasa
* Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
* Stickball
* Three Sisters agriculture
* Thunderbird
* Underwater panther
* Water glyphs

Related
Genetic history
Pre-Columbian era

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