10,000 B.C. - 7,500 B.C.
Paleo
7,500 B.C. - 1,00 B.C.
Meso
1,000 BC - AD 800
Early Neo
800 AD - arrival of Europeans (written history)
Late Neo
Nomadic eras were...
Paleo and Meso
Sedentary eras were...
Late and Early Neo
What did the paleo people eat?
meat and plants
What did the Meso people eat?
deer, rabbits, raccoons, and squirrels, seeds, nuts, fruit, birds, mammals
What did the Early Neo people eat?
wild fruit, grain, grapes, weeds fish, shellfish, and oysters
What did the Late Neo people eat?
same are early neo people, but started producing agriculture
The Paleo people used _________ for tools and weapons....
primitive spears
The Meso people used the _________ as a tool and weapon.
atlatl
atlatl
helped make spears more accurate
the Early Neo people used _________ for tools and weapons....
bow and arrow, arrowheads
The Late Neo people used _________ for tools and weapons....
bow and arrow, farming tools
The Paleo people lived in...
temporary shelters covered in blankets
The Meso people lived in...
structures covered with branches, built on posts
The Early Neo people lived in...
seasonal villages
The Late Neo people lived in....
permanent villages
Group known for hunting; oldest known natives in Louisiana
Paleo people
Created mounds, less nomadic, hunted smaller game than Paleo
Meso people
Made elaborate ornaments to wear and trade
Early Neo people
Switched from gathering to agriculture, created intercropping
Late Neo people
The word "paleo" means....
ancient
objects made by humans, especially ancient tools and weapons
artifacts
ancient garbage dumps
middens
a place where archeologists found a lot of artifacts....
middens
Radiocarbon dating
used to determine the age of the artifacts
Scientists believe these people first traveled to north america from asia across a ________ __________ that once connected today's state of alaska and the region of Russia called Siberia.
land bridge
Around 7500 BC, Earth's climate ___________________. As a result, paleo people no longer had to __________________ constantly to keep up with migrating herds
changed, travel
around 1,000 bc, the neo people started making...
pottery
the bow and arrow was created around...
500 AD
the late neo people began growing...
maize, beans, squash, and pumpkins
created intercropping and farming
late neo
planting two or more crops with different harvest times in the same plot of land ....
intercropping.
six larger semicircular ridges on a bluff overlooking Bayou Macon
Poverty Point
Poverty Point
built between 1700 bc and 1100 bc
Mound A, the biggest mound in Poverty Point, is called...
the bird mound
Poverty Point was a...
huge trade center
the Poverty Point culture disappeared in...
600 bc
Poverty Point gets its name from a plantation that occupied the same land in the nineteenth century and was named a
national monument