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The Early Woodland period continued many trends begun during the Late and Terminal Archaic periods, including extensive mound-building, regional distinctive burial complexes, the trade of exotic goods across a large area of North America as part of interaction spheres, the reliance on both wild and domesticated plant foods, and a mobile subsistence strategy in which small groups took advantage ...
Copper knife, spearpoints, awls, and spud, from the Late Archaic period, Wisconsin, 3000–1000 BC. In the classification of the archaeological cultures of North America, the Archaic period in North America, taken to last from around 8000 to 1000 BC [1] in the sequence of North American pre-Columbian cultural stages, is a period defined by the archaic stage of cultural development.
Desert Archaic: Middle Archaic: Late Archaic: Great Lakes: Old Copper complex: c. 4000 – c. 1000 BCE Red Ochre people: c. 1000 – 100 BCE Glacial Kame culture: c. 8000 – 1000 BCE Great Plains: Plains Archaic: c. 9500 – 5500 BCE Mesoamerica: Mexican Archaic: Southwest: Southwestern Archaic Traditions: Archaic – Early Basketmaker Era: c ...
An Early Woodland people from the east began to trade with the latest Archaic people. [12] Early Woodland peoples established sites on floodplains, terraces, saddles, benches and hilltops. [45] Storage or refuse pits in habitation sites appear. Analysis of a new style ceramic discovery from the Winfield Locks Site (46PU4) has provisional Early ...
Burning to manage wildlife habitat did continue and was a common practice by 1950. Longleaf pine dominated the coastal plains until the early 1900s, where loblolly and slash pines now dominate. [10] At low altitudes in the Rocky Mountain region, large areas of Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir had an open park-like structure until the 1900s.
These early settlers came from Central or South America. [2] In the North American chronology the Archaic is known generally as the period from 11,500 to 3200 cal yr B.P. and is usually subdivided into three subperiods: Early Archaic (11,500-8900 cal yr B.P.), Middle Archaic (8900-5800 cal yr B.P.), and Late Archaic (5800-3200 cal yr B.P.). [3]
The Central Plains Woodland emerged on the central Great Plains about 2500 BP and persisted until about 1000 BP. It is further broken up into Early (2500–2000 BP), Middle (2000–1500), and Late (1500–1000) periods. [12] This culture spanned modern-day Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Colorado.
Poverty Point, built about 1500 BCE in what is now Louisiana, is a prominent example of Late Archaic mound-builder construction (around 2500 BCE – 1000 BCE). It is a striking complex of more than 1 square mile (2.6 km 2), where six earthwork crescent ridges were built in concentric arrangement, interrupted by radial aisles.