Indigenous Peoples of Garrett County: Home

This website features archaeological sites in Maryland that were previously occupied by Woodland Indians.

Educator's guide for the American Museum of Natural History's Hall of Eastern Woodlands Indians.

Virtual and physical exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History that focuses on the traditional cultures of the Native American cultures, including the Iroquois, Mohegans, Ojibwas, and Crees living in North America through the early 20th century.

Art and history in the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, relating to the Woodland Indians.

North American archaeology divides the history of pre-Columbian North America into a number of periods from the earliest-known human habitation through the early exploration of the New World by Europeans. The Legends of America website lists and describes these different archaeological periods.

Archeologists have found evidence of rhyolite quarry sites and base camps related to hunting or kill sites in Catoctin Mountain Park. The mountain's resources provided Native Americans with materials for tools, animals for food and clothing, and a variety of nuts and berries that were gathered as an additional food source.
Catoctin Mountain became an important source of rhyolite, a valued material in making lithic tools, during the Archaic Period, 8,000 to 1,200 B.C., with the most active period during the Woodland Period, 1,200 B.C. to A.D. 1600.

Legends of America website details the Woodland Period, which is an archaeological classification of Native American cultures of North America prior to European contact.