 An important site of this late-Woodland period is the Town Creek Indian Mound, an archaeologically rich site occupied from about 1100 to 1450 CE by the Pee Dee people of the South Appalachian Mississippian culture.North Carolina was home to several distinct cultural groups.Along the east coast were the Chowanoke, or Roanoke, & Croatan nations, Algonquian speaking people.