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Prehistoric Cultures of N America
Paleo Indian• ancient peoples of the Americas who were present at the
end of the last Ice Age• Village Names of Paleo Indians
– Clovis used pointed projectiles to hunt – Folsom used spears– Plano drove animals off cliffs
• Came from Asia??? • these people were nomadic hunter-gatherers – followed
animal migration• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmbU7mQIc-c
Moundbuilders• type of N American natives who constructed various styles of
earthen mounds for burial residential and ceremonial purposes
• lived during the first thousand years AD• farming and irrigation• Village Names of Moundbuilders
– Adena– Hopewell– Mississippian
• lived in the Mississippi area
Southwestern
• Ancient pueblo people • lived in the S Western portion of the U.S.• Village names of southwestern pre-
historic Natives:– Mogollon
• stone workers– Hohokam =
• canal builders– Anasazi
• basket makers
Dating Methods
• how do historians know how old things and people are
• calendar ages – ex dendrochronology – tree ring dating
• numerical ages – ex radiocarbon – looks at the amount of carbon
• correlated ages – ex volcanic ash
• relative ages – geologic time – “Middle Ages” “Ice Age”
Ice Age• a period of long term reduction
in the temperature of Earth’s climate
• results in an expansion of ice sheets …glaciers
• Bering strait – tip between Russia and Alaska– a natural land bridge
spanned this distance between the two continents
– not there anymore… it melted
SUMMARY
• QUIZ TIME• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maziRFPYU14
• T/F The Paleo Indians possibly followed mammoths across the Bering Strait to America.
• 2. T/F The Anasazi people of the Southwest were canal builders.
• 3. T/F You could still cross the Bering Strait today by foot.