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 complex 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, and 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.

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.