Native history
Early
c. 1000 BCE-900 CE
DeKalb County
General area only

Woodland pottery, gardens and mounds

Over nearly two thousand years people in Georgia made sturdier, decorated pottery, built the state's first earthen and rock mounds, and farmed more. The bow and arrow probably arrived late in the period.

See it on the map All Early records

The record

The New Georgia Encyclopedia divides the period into Early (1000-300 BC), Middle (300 BC-AD 600) and Late (AD 600-900) Woodland. Sand- and grit-tempered pottery became sturdier, and by the Middle Woodland was decorated with carved wooden paddles. The earliest earthen and rock mounds in Georgia, mostly small dome-shaped burial mounds, date to the Middle Woodland. Horticulture intensified, corn became important late in the period, and small triangular points suggest the bow and arrow. DeKalb County's guidelines date soapstone working on Soapstone Ridge into the Early Woodland. This map does not locate any Woodland site.