Researchers failed to find patterns of postholes, which are one way to identify where ancient Native structures once stood. However, they did find three clusters of ceramic vessel fragments, chipped stone tools, carbonized plant remains, and burned rock. These they interpreted as areas where families had built their houses and cooked their food.
Dreaming Creek ceramic vessels were jars. And like other Late Woodland jars, they were larger and had thinner walls than earlier Woodland vessels.
Native peoples started making thin-walled pottery at about the same time as they increased their reliance on starchy- and oily-seeded native plants, such as goosefoot, sunflower, and maygrass. Larger vessels also may have been better suited for processing and cooking the seeds from these plants.
Seeds of other cultigens from the site included squash, tobacco, and corn. The corn from Dreaming Creek is some of the earliest corn recovered in Kentucky.
Nuts were also an important food resource. The recovered nutshell was predominately hickory and black walnut.