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Prehistoric Georgia Prehistoric Georgia IndiansIndians
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Essential Questions• How did the Native American
cultures develop prior to European contact?
• What impact did the environment have on the development of prehistoric Native Americans in Georgia?
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Understanding Ancient Peoples Understanding Ancient Peoples Through ArtifactsThrough ArtifactsOral Tradition
Elders repeated narratives of events often until the youngergenerations memorized them.
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Archeologists dig into earth to find artifacts (items made by people) that tell us about early inhabitants Shale: Layeredrock that can encase ancient animals or birds
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Georgia Native AmericanArchaeological Sites
►Nacoochee
►Etowah
►/■ Macon Plateau
►Cemochechobee■ Mandeville■ Kolomoki
Tunacunnhee ■■ Long Swamp
■ Rock Eagle
Ocmulgee ■
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CULTURE
shared beliefs, traditions, music, art, and social institutions of a group of people
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The First Americans
• Glaciers – large, slow moving sheets of ice
• Approximately 30,000 years ago the earth experienced an Ice Age.
• Ice Age – a period of time in which temperatures on earth were very cold, and North America was covered in glaciers.
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How Scientists Think the Beringia Looked...
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10,000 - 8,000 BC
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Cultural Periods in Georgia Cultural Periods in Georgia History: Paleo History: Paleo
• Paleo (from Greek, “Very Old”)
• Also called Old Stone Age• 10,000-8000 B.C.
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Nomadic (Roaming) Hunters
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25 – 50 People
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Most tools and spear points made of stone
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Clovis and related projectile points from this time period have been found throughout Georgia.
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• Clovis points, along with a number of other stone tools, found at Macon Plateau were the first Paleoindian points unearthed in
eastern North America.
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Dates 10,000 – 8,000 B.C.
Weapons Heavy Spears with Clovis Points, Atlatl
Food Bison, Mastodons, Giant Sloths, Other Large Mammals, Small Game, Berries, Fruit, Vegetables
Dwellings Non-Permanent Pits or Brush Covered with Hides or Bark
Evidence of Religion
Burial of Dead with Artifacts
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8,000 - 1,000 BC
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Cultural Periods in Georgia History: Cultural Periods in Georgia History: ArchaicArchaic
•Archaic (means “Old”)
•Three time spans: Early, Middle, Late
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Cultural Periods in Georgia History: Cultural Periods in Georgia History: Early ArchaicEarly Archaic
• During this time, most of Georgia was covered with oak-hickory hardwood forests.
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FOOD• Hunted white-tailed deer, black bear,
turkey, and other large game animals.• Collected nuts, roots, fruits, seeds, and
berries.• Caught turtles, fish, shellfish, birds,
and smaller mammals.• Food was easier to find; people moved
around less nomadic
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• The large prehistoric animals such as bison, mastodons, mammoths, and camels had become extinct.
The Woolly Mammoth probably went extinct because it couldn't adapt to the combined pressures of the climatic warming that occurred when the Ice Age ended, together with predation from humans.
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Cultural Periods in Georgia History: Cultural Periods in Georgia History: Late ArchaicLate Archaic
• Created grooved axes to clear trees and bushes
• Improved pottery making techniques. Use of pottery to saving and planting seeds for plants and seeds for growing seasons (horticulture)
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Shellfish was a more
common food
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Dates 8,000 – 1,000 B.C.
Weapons Spears with Atlatls
Food Deer, Bear, Small Game, Wild Fruits and Vegetables, Oysters, and Shellfish
Dwellings Semi-Permanent Shelters
Evidence of Religion
Burial of Dead with Tools, Weapons, and Body Ornaments
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1,000 BC - 1,000 AD
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Cultural Periods in Georgia History: Cultural Periods in Georgia History: WoodlandWoodland
• 1,000 B.C. to 1,000 A.D.• Tribes• Shelter• Tools• Food• Pottery• Religion
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group of people sharing common
ancestry,name, and way of living
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Built domed-shaped huts with trees
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Used Bow & Arrows to Hunt
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Hunted large animals
and small game
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Kolomoki Mounds
Located in Southwest Georgia
Largest Woodland Settlement in State
Contained at Least 8 Mounds
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Dates 1,000 B.C. – 1,000 A.D.
Weapons Bow and Arrow
Food Deer, Small Game, Nuts and Seeds, Squash and Gourds
Dwellings Sturdy Houses in Villages
Evidence of Religion
Burial Mounds, Some with Ceremonial Objects
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Mississippian Period
(1000 – 1600 AD)
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Cultural Periods in Georgia History: Cultural Periods in Georgia History: Mississippian Mississippian
• Also called the Temple Mound period
• Farmed with homemade tools and grew most of their food.
• Thousands might live in a single settlement, protected by fences and moats
• Very religious; used jewelry and body art
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• Decorative collarpieces created by the Mississippians
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Horticulturalists• They grew much of their food in small gardens.• Used simple tools like stone axes, digging sticks,
and fire.• Corn, beans, squash, sunflowers, goosefoot, sumpweed, and other plants were cultivated.• Wild plants were also eaten.
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Villages• Plaza (located in the center of the town)
served as a gathering place.• Religious to Social Gatherings• Houses were built around the plaza.• Often arranged around small
courtyards.• Towns containing one or more mounds
served as capitals of chiefdoms.
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•Some Mississippian villages has defensive structures.
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Helped keep unwelcome people and animals from entering the village.
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Houses• rectangular or circular pole structures• Walls were made by weaving saplings and cane
around poles.• Outer surface of the walls was sometimes covered
with sun-baked clay or daub (wattle and daub)• Roofs were covered with thatch, with a small hole
left in the middle to allow smoke to escape.• The hearth dominated the center of the living
space.• Low benches used for sleeping and storage ringed
the outer walls.
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Ocmulgee Mounds• As impressive as the Kolomoki Mounds were, the Native
Americans of Georgia will outdo themselves with the Ocmulgee Mounds.
• Located in Macon.• Consist of 7 mounds and associated plazas.• Built on top of the Macon Plateau – rise 56 feet high.
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Etowah Mounds• Located in
Cartersville.• 54-acre site
contains six earthen mounds, a plaza, village area, borrow pits and defensive ditch.
• Most Impressive chiefdom capital at this time.
Most intact Mississippian Culture site in the Southeastern United States.
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• The Etowah Indian Mounds symbolize a society rich in ritual.
• 63-foot flat-topped earthen knoll was likely used as a platform for the home of the priest-chief.
• In another mound, nobility were buried in elaborate costumes accompanied by items they would need in their after-lives.
• Many artifacts show how the natives of this political and religious center decorated themselves with shell beads, tattoos, paint, complicated hairdos, feathers and copper ear ornaments.
• Well-preserved stone effigies and objects made of wood, sea shells and stone can also be seen here.
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Ritual Ceremony Taking Place in a
Plaza
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Social Structure• Organized as chiefdoms or ranked societies.
Elites CommonersReceived special treatment (larger homes and special food and clothing); didn’t have to work doing hard labor.
Grew food, made crafts, and served as warriors and as laborers for public works projects.
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Dates 1,000 – 1,600 A.D.
Weapons Bow and Arrow
Food Deer, Turkey and Other Small Game, Corn, Beans, and Other Vegetables
Dwellings Permanent Settlements with Wattle and Daub Houses
Evidence of Religion
Burial Mounds with Food and Ceremonial Objects