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Early Inhabitants: Paleo Ate Wooly Mammoth!
Early Inhabitants: Paleo Ate Wooly Mammoth!
Early Inhabitants
Ancient Indians:
Early Inhabitants
Paleo
Old Stone
Until 10,000 B.C.
Nomadic Culture
Hunters
Hunted Large game
Large pointed sticks
Clovis points spears
Lived in small groups
25 50 members
Artifacts in GA:
Around Rivers
Savannah
Ocmulgee
Flint
PALEO INDIANS
Paleo-Indians lived in small nomadic
Early Inhabitants
Archaic
6000 B.C. 1000 B.C.
3 periods
Game gets smaller
Weapons get smaller, faster
Atlatl
Simple tools
Drills, chipping tools
Seasonal Migrants
Begin horticulture
Small groups join
Make camps
Clay pots first used
ARCHAIC PERIOD
8000-5000BC
Invented useful tools
such as:
Choppers, drills, and
chipping tools
WOODLAND INDIANS
1000BC-1000AD
KNOWN AS HUNTERS
AND GATHERERS
Lived a more settled life.
Attentions to death and
burial
EFFIGY MOUNDS
Invented Bow and Arrow
Early Inhabitants
Woodland
1000 B.C. 1000 A.D.
Camps join and form
tribes
Several hundred families
Common ancestry,
customs
Begin using Bow and
Arrow
Fire pottery for strength
Religious ceremonies
impt.
Burial mounds filled with
goods
EFFIGY MOUNDS
Woodland Indians
Early Inhabitants
Mississippian
700 A.D. - 1600
Lived in villages
Farmed
Maize
Beans
Pumpkin
Squash
Practiced religion
Priest Chief
Mississippian Farmers
Farmers
Lived a more settled life.
Ocmulgee mound
Kolomoki Mounds