Early Peoples
This group hunted mammoths and mastodons.
Clovis
The Tchefuncte used these animal parts to make tools.
Bones and antlers
These people built mounds using baskets of dirt.
Mound Builders
Marksville mounds were used for ceremonies and this.
Burials
Poverty Point was located near this major river.
Mississippi River
These spearpoints were smaller and more finely crafted than Clovis points.
Folsom
This group made stronger pottery with geometric designs.
Marksville
Mounds were often used for this purpose.
Burials
Mound Builders buried items because they believed this.
People needed them in the afterlife
They used these to cook food underground.
Underground ovens
These people lived in cliff dwellings in the Four Corners region.
Ancestral Pueblo
These designs were influenced by a group from Ohio and Illinois.
Hopewell
The Caddo used mounds mainly for this purpose.
Burying their dead
Name ONE shared characteristic of civilization between Ancestral Pueblo and Mound Builders.
Any: infrastructure, belief system, stable food supply, technology
People likely lived on these raised areas.
Ridges
Early settlers may have arrived in North America using this method.
By boat along the Pacific coast
Tchefuncte pottery often broke because they did not do this.
Properly prepare clay for firing
This group lived in one place and farmed corn, beans, and squash.
Caddo
Petroglyphs often tell stories about this type of event.
Hunts
Poverty Point had a large network for this activity.
Trade
These two groups both hunted using spears and atlatls.
Clovis and Folsom
This discovery allowed people to form permanent settlements.
Agriculture
This region is mostly associated with Mound Builders east of this river.
Mississippi River
Marksville people buried the dead with these types of items.
Decorative items
Archaeologists found evidence of materials brought from how far away?
Up to 700 miles