TERM 1
First Peoples
DEFINITION 1
First Peoples Emerged from Africa Appro ximately Two Million Years
Ago Paleolithic Age Greek Origins:Paleo(Old)li thic(Stone) Stone
Tools Paleolithic Life Hun ters, Gatherers Soon moved in to Europe
and Asia Migration Limited Supply of S ustenance Hunters migrated
following patterns of large mammals M ammoth Bering Strait
Present Day Bering Strait Bering Land Bridge
TERM 2
Giant Mammals
DEFINITION 2
New Prey Available in the form of Large N orth American Mammals
8,000 B.C.E
The Debate
Over-kill or Climate Change?
The Academic World has been divided for decades
The Clovis Point
First found in Clovis, NM
Climate Change
Believe that Hunters of the age were scav engers.
Mammals died off because North Americ a grew warmer and drier.
Problems?
Why did existing populations of Birds and F ish not disappear
as well?
TERM 3
The Archaic
Period
DEFINITION 3
Loss of Large Prey Stifled Population G rowth
Period lasted approximately 100 gene rations.
Archaic Peoples hunted continuously
Northeast-small game such as rabbit , beaver
Great Plains-bison
Midwest-first domestication of plants i n US
Sunflowers seeds and Sumpweed
TERM 4
The First Sedentary Communities
DEFINITION 4
A large supply of goods prompted communities to stay in
one area
Alaska, Northwest
Large natural surplus of fish
New England
Shellfish
Groups remain in one area for generations
TERM 5
Poverty Point, 1500 B.C.E
DEFINITION 5
Located along the Mississippi River
Near present day Delhi, Louisiana
Constructed Large Earthen Mounds
What do these mounds indicate?
700 feet long, 70 feet high
When viewed from above it reveale d a representation of a
hawk
What can be determined from their presence?
