We use the word culture to describe a group of people's customs, religion, family and community life.
Culture also includes people's dance, art and music.
Just as you live in a modern American culture, young Native Americans before the English came to Viriginia were part of the culture of their own peoples. Archaeologists who study prehistoric peoples give names to different periods of time so they can compare the culture of groups of people across thousands of years. They study artifacts , such as tools made of stone or bone, to see how people's ability to make different kinds of tools and better quality tools has changed. They try to find out everything they can about a people's culture. You might say they study people's garbage.