Early People
Surviving
Early Life
Tools
Traditions
100
The earliest known culture or period is known as what?
Paleo
100
This group grew most of their food, and knew much about farming.
Mississippian
100
The people from this period lived in groups of 25-50 people.
The Paleo period
100
These people developed the bow and arrow, with arrow points made out of stone, shark teeth, or deer antlers made hunting much easier.
Woodland
100
Because these people moved about so often, there are few artifacts left behind to tell much about their daily traditions.
Paleo
200
Which group of people were present between 8,000 BC to 5,000 BC?
Archaic Period People
200
This group of people lived in small villages and built huts as houses.
Woodland people
200
Though these people made several tools, they still made regular moves based on the season. Where berries, nuts, and fruits were plentiful, to where the fishing was good.
"Early" Archaic Period
200
These people develop more in-depth ways to protect their villages with moats and palisades.
Mississippian
200
This group of people buried their dead, smoked pipes, used needles for sewing, and were the first group to have permanent villages.
"Late" Archaic people
300
Which period contained three distinct time frames?
Archaic Period
300
When large game eventually became extinct, this group did not stop hunting. They simply started hunting smaller game like deer, bear, turkey, and rabbit.
"Early" Archaic people
300
The people from this period made tools from fish bones, could throw a weighted spear, and had learned to eat shellfish, they discovered they did not need to move season after season.
"Middle" Archaic Period
300
These people learned how to make pottery last longer by mixing clay with sand.
Woodland
300
These people began wearing feathered headdresses, wearing clothing with eccentric beading, and had built centers for religious ceremonies.
Mississippians
400
What period developed between about 1,000 BC and 1,000 AD?
Woodland
400
These people, from a distinct time period, learned how to adapt when the weather become warm and dry, and water levels began to recede.
"Middle" Archaic Period
400
The scientific term "horticulture", is believed to have started with the people from this period.
"Late" Archaic Period
400
This period of people are responsible for inventing multiple tools such as choppers, drills, hooks from animal bones, and the grooved ax.
The Archaic Period
400
These people buried passed family members with everyday items, leading to the thought that they believed in life after death.
Woodland.
500
Which period brought the most civilized people and started about 700 AD?
Mississippian Period
500
Explain how the people of the Paleo Period and "Late" Archaic Period are different.
The Paleo people were nomadic, roaming for food and shelter. The late Archaic people were responsible for making clay containers to store, cook, and serve food. These people also saved their seeds from one year to the next for farming.
500
These people began banding together to form tribes consisting of several hundreds families.
Woodland
500
This culture hunted with an amazing invention of the atlatl. A smooth stone sling-like contraption that threw darts far more accurately than throwing by hand.
Paleo people
500
Based on findings a few miles north of Augusta on the Savannah River, these people left evidence that they survived on muscles and clams. Who were the people and what evidence was left?
"Late" Archaic people left a mound of mussel and clam shells that was 512' long and 300' wide.
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