Editing Pre-Columbian era (section)

===Woodland period===
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[[File:Mound City Chillicothe Ohio HRoe 2008.jpg|thumb|Hopewell mounds from the [[Hopewell Culture National Historical Park|Mound City group]] in Ohio]]

The [[Woodland period]] of North American pre-Columbian cultures lasted from roughly 1000 BCE to 1000 CE. The term was coined in the 1930s and refers to prehistoric sites between the [[Archaic period in the Americas|Archaic period]] and the [[Mississippian culture]]s. The [[Adena culture]] and the ensuing [[Hopewell tradition]] during this period built monumental earthwork architecture and established continent-spanning trade and exchange networks.

This period is considered a developmental stage without any massive changes in a short period but instead has a continuous development in stone and bone tools, leatherworking, textile manufacture, tool production, cultivation, and shelter construction. Some Woodland people continued to use spears and [[atlatl]]s until the end of the period when they were replaced by [[bow and arrow|bows and arrows]].