| has gloss | eng: The Monongahela culture were a Native Americans cultural manifestation of Late Woodland peoples in Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and West Virginia from 1050 to 1635 CE. The culture was named for the Monongahela River, whose valley contains the majority of this cultures sites, by Mary Butler in 1939. The Monongahela practiced maize agriculture, and lived in well laid out villages, some of which consisted of as many as 50-100 structures. They also traded with other groups who in turn traded with Europeans, but they seem to have disappeared some time during the 1620s or 1630s before ever having significant direct contact with Europeans. Many believe this to be the result of the spread of European diseases. Others believe that most were killed by or assimilated into either the Iroquois or the Delaware tribes during war. |
