Definition:
The Piedmont Tradition is the name given to a group of artifacts recovered from specific Late Archaic sites (4000-1000 years ago) in the Piedmont Mountains of the eastern United States.
Late Archaic people were primarily hunters of game such as deer and collectors of seed and weed plants.
Sources
This article is a part of the About.com Guide to the Archaic Period, and part of the Dictionary of Archaeology. Any mistakes are the responsibility of Kris Hirst.
