1. A heavily forested and thinly peopled land
2. Mobile hunter-gatherers: Paleoindian and Early Archaic
3. Sedentary hunter-gatherers: Middle to Late Archaic
4. Builders of burial mounds and earthworks: Early to Middle Woodland
5. Villagers facing great change: Late Woodland
6. Chiefs come to power: Mississippian
7. Northern villagers: Late Prehistory
8. A trail of tears: Native American and European contact.
The moundbuilders : ancient peoples of eastern North America by George R. Milner. ISBN 050002118X. Published by Thames & Hudson in 2004. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.