The Moundbuilders: ancient peoples of eastern North America

1. A heavily forested and thinly peopled land

2. Mobile hunter-gatherers: Paleoindian and Early Archaic

3. Sedentary hunter-gatherers: Middle to Late Archaic

4. Builders of burial mounds and earthworks: Early to Middle Woodland

5. Villagers facing great change: Late Woodland

6. Chiefs come to power: Mississippian

7. Northern villagers: Late Prehistory

8. A trail of tears: Native American and European contact.