The First People/Humans
What did the first people call the small bands they walked on to travel from one continent to another?
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A landbridge or beringa
When did the "Big-Game Hunters" reach Oklahoma ?
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11 thousand years ago.
Where did the foragers camp?
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Near creeks, rivers, springs and caves.
What was the pottery used for?
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Preparing/storing food, carrying water, and for entertainment.
Around what time did the foragers become early farmers?
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Around the birth of Christ
When did the first people come to North America
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During the Ice Age.
What is a smaller spearpoint called?
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Folsom point.
What was the foragers society based on?
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Based on scavenging.
Who mostly made early farmer pottery?
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Women
What were the natives growing?
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Corn, beans, squash, and pumpkins
How did they get isolated in the new land?
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The runoff raised the sea levels and flooded the beringa.
Who were the Big-Game Hunters descendants?
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The Foragers.
What was included in the Foragers meat diet?
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Nuts, berries, sunflower seeds, and roots.
What method did they use to make oval bottoms?
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The coil method
What did the farmers use to tend to their plants?
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Improved bone, stone, and wooden tools.
There are many different beliefs about how Native Americans got here which is told in this book
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The one scientist got from data
Who were more skillful hunters than the Big-Game Hunters?
Foragers
What were some things foragers manufactured?
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Baskets, nets, string, and canoes.
What method did they use to smooth clay out
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They used their fingers or shells.
What weapon made plains village farmers more affective farmers?
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The bow and arrow
What did the Paleo-Indians hunt with?
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Stone and bone.
Where was the folsom point found?
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The Cooper Site in Harper County.
Where were the forager camps found?
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The Ozarks of NE Oklahoma, Calf Creek in Caddo County.
What is the new remnants they found in the forest
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Pottery Shards.
Why was the bison the most important thing plain village farmers used?
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Bison skin was furnished material for clothing bedding, fibers etc. and bones were used to make tools