<Li> Coles Creek culture: The Coles Creek culture is an indigenous development of the Lower Mississippi Valley that took place between the terminal Woodland period and the later Plaquemine culture period . The period is marked by the increased use of flat - topped platform mounds arranged around central plazas, more complex political institutions, and a subsistence strategy still grounded in the Eastern Agricultural Complex and hunting rather than on the maize plant as would happen in the succeeding Plaquemine Mississippian period . The culture was originally defined by the unique decoration on grog - tempered ceramic ware by James A. Ford after his investigations at the Mazique Archeological Site . He had studied both the Mazique and Coles Creek Sites, and almost went with the Mazique culture, but decided on the less historically involved sites name . It is ancestral to the Plaquemine culture . </Li> <Ul> <Li> Hohokam culture: The Hohokam was a culture centered along American Southwest . The early Hohokam founded a series of small villages along the middle Gila River . They raised corn, squash and beans . The communities were located near good arable land, with dry farming common in the earlier years of this period . They were known for their pottery, using the paddle - and - anvil technique . The Classical period of the culture saw the rise in architecture and ceramics . Buildings were grouped into walled compounds, as well as earthen platform mounds . Platform mounds were built along river as well as irrigation canal systems, suggesting these sites were administrative centers allocating water and coordinating canal labor . Polychrome pottery appeared, and inhumation burial replaced cremation . Trade included that of shells and other exotics . Social and climatic factors led to a decline and abandonment of the area after 1400 A.D. </Li> </Ul> <Li> Hohokam culture: The Hohokam was a culture centered along American Southwest . The early Hohokam founded a series of small villages along the middle Gila River . They raised corn, squash and beans . The communities were located near good arable land, with dry farming common in the earlier years of this period . They were known for their pottery, using the paddle - and - anvil technique . The Classical period of the culture saw the rise in architecture and ceramics . Buildings were grouped into walled compounds, as well as earthen platform mounds . Platform mounds were built along river as well as irrigation canal systems, suggesting these sites were administrative centers allocating water and coordinating canal labor . Polychrome pottery appeared, and inhumation burial replaced cremation . Trade included that of shells and other exotics . Social and climatic factors led to a decline and abandonment of the area after 1400 A.D. </Li> <Table> <Tr> <Td> <Dl> <Dt> Ancestral Puebloan archeological sites </Dt> </Dl> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> <P> The Great Kiva of Chetro Ketl at the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site . </P> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> <P> Taos Pueblo, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is an Ancient Pueblo belonging to a Native American tribe of Pueblo people, marking the cultural development in the region during the Pre-Columbian era . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> White House Ruins, Canyon de Chelly National Monument </P> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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