Final answer:
The Woodland period featured American Indian cultures who engaged in early agriculture, hunting, gathering, and created burial mounds, known as the Adena and Hopewell cultures.
Step-by-step explanation:
The American Indian cultures of the Woodland period, which lasted from 1000 BCE to 1000 CE, were characterized by their lifestyle that heavily relied on hunting smaller game, plant materials, and domestication of plants, signaling the start of the agricultural.
The Woodland period peoples lived in the Eastern parts of North America, where they used tools such as spears, bows, and blowguns.
Key among their cultural developments were the conical burial mounds found in areas like Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia, associated with the Adena culture, and then the Hopewell culture, known for their trade networks that much of the continent.
However, during the Late Woodland period in Georgia, these civilizations started to decline due to a combination of environmental changes, overhunting, societal shifts, and possibly the introduction of new diseases.
As time progressed, the transition to the Mississippian period saw new cultural patterns emerge that eventually replaced Woodland societies.