a. Mounds over human burials.
b. Mounds over burned house structures.
c. Circular houses of wattle-and-daub construction with centrally located hearth, interior roof supports in some cases, extended entranceway on the west or southeast side, soil banked against the exterior wall, and a centrally located center post used during construction of the house; the houses were sometimes built in shallow excavated pits.
d. Probable ceremonial use of the above-described houses.
e. Pottery type Pease Brushed-Incised in occupational sites.
f. Dart point type Gary in occupational sites.
g. Arrow point type Perdiz in occupational sites and in burials.
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