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Northeast Late Woodland

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Relative Time Period: Follows the Northeast Middle Woodland tradition, overlaps the Proto-Iroquois tradition, and precedes the historic period.

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Snow, D. (2001). Northeast Late Woodland. In: Peregrine, P.N., Ember, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Prehistory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0523-5_38

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