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*Archaeologists dig for artifacts that tell us about people of the past.
*Artifacts are objects that were made, modified, or used by humans of past cultures. They help us
Paleo
Archaic
Archaic
Woodland
Mississippian
*Time: up to 10,000 years ago.
*Food Sources: large herds of animals like mammoths and bison, fished, and gathered fruits and nuts
*Weapons, Tools, Utensils: tools of stone, and long spears
*Shelter: no permanent shelter; they were nomads who lived in semi permanent camps.
*Extra: A few Paleo sites in GA Flint River, Savannah River, Ocmulgee River.
*Time: 8000 B.C. to 1000 B.C.
*Food Sources: smaller game animals (deer, bears, turtles, turkey), berries/nuts, horticulture.
*Weapons, Tools, Utensils: stone axes, drills, pottery, weighted spears, atlatls.
*Shelter: banded together into camps toward the end of the period some resided in small oval pits with coverings and stayed longer
*Extra: pottery was a great contribution to Native American culture.
*Time: 1000 B.C. to 1000 A.D.
*Food Sources: hunting, fishing, farming (cleared fields and planted crops), gathering nuts/berries.
*Weapons, Tools, Utensils: bow and arrow, stronger pottery.
*Shelter: dome-shaped huts from trees and bark, began forming tribes and living in villages
*Extra: Pottery began having designs on it, burial mounds built for dead can still be found in Georgia.
Kolomoki Mounds – Blakely, GA
1 Great Temple 2 burial 4 ceremonial
Rock EagleEatonton, GA
believed to be a burial mound
*Time: 900 A.D. – 1600 A.D.
*Food Sources: grew most food (corn, beans, pumpkins, squash, tobacco)
*Weapons, Tools, Utensils: bone hoes, digging sticks.
*Shelter: larger villages near water sources (Ocmulgee, Oconee, Chatahoochee, and Savannah Rivers).
*Extra: beads, earrings, tattoos, head dresses. Priest-chief was head of village.
*1600s mysteriously disappeared.
Etowah Mounds in Cartersville, GA
Ocmulgee Indian Mounds
Macon, GA
Ocmulgee Indian Mounds
Macon, GA
Nacoochee Mound Helen, GA
*Set up in Chiefdoms with a system of levels
*Chief- head of the tribe political and religious figures
*Nobles- large homes and special food
*Commoners- produce food and crafts as well as act a soldiers and laborers
*Some speculate the decline was because of overpopulation while others think it was that the chiefs lost control over the chiefdoms and a final theory is disease
*A barter economy is one in which items or services are traded instead of money.
*The Cherokee and Creek Indians lived in Georgia during the Mississippian Period.
*The Cherokee lived in the mountains of North Georgia.
*The Creek lived in Southern and Coastal Georgia.