6 regions of South Carolina
What is the smallest region in South Carolina?
Blue Ridge
What did the Native Americans use to hunt with?
Spears, bows
What is something the Paleo Indians did not do?
farm
What are Middens?
Middens are large heaps of land that were sues as dumps and wasteland.
What period came before the Mississippian period?
Archaic Indian Period
What is the largest region in South Carolina?
Piedmont
What were the women's main jobs?
Cooking, planting, caring for the children, crafting clothes and shoes.
How do we know the Paleo indians didnt stay in one place?
The spearheads were found in multiple places throughout the Eastern Woodlands.
What can we find in Middens?
Middens hold bones, trash, things that were waste during this period. Much of our information we know today are from Middens.
What are Petroglyphs?
picture symbols representing sounds, meanings & ideas
What river divides Georgia from South Carolina?
The Savannah River
What were the tools made out of?
rock, trees, clay, stone, bones
Name 3 artifacts you can find today?
Blades, scrapers, spear points, flakes, & stone tools
What types of animals did they hunt?
Smaller animals such as deer, shellfish, turkeys, raccons
What are palisades?
(12-20 ft high fence/wall with pointed stakes)
What region do we live in?
Sandhills
What did the Native Americans do with the animals?
They ate them, used their skin for clothes, blankets, heat protection, used bones for tools, wore bones as respect for the animals.
What ended the Paleo indian period?
Earth’s climate and the recession of glaciers created life changes of humans
What animal did they consider domesticated and why did they domesticate them?
Dogs, because they wanted a companion and hunting partner.
Name 3 advances the Mississipians made?
agriculture, buildings, villages with palisades, temple mounds, & class divisions
List the 6 regions in order from the top to bottom of South Carolina.
Blue Ridge, Piedmont, Sandhills, inner coastal, outer coastal, coastal.
What word was used for how the Native Americans felt about animals?
Respect
Name the 3 used in the Spears.
Clovis, Folsom, Plainview
What did they do different with their tools and why?
They made their tools smaller and added fishing hooks. This was because the larger animals including mammoths started disappearing.
What makes the Mississipian period special? What makes it different from the other periods?
It is the last pre-historic period, which makes us know the most about it.