Peoples of Site 3 (located north of Lake Nakawa) existed in occupations ranging from 1520 B.C. E. to post-1700s. They began as simple hunter-gatherers who subsisted on nuts, fish and deer. During these early occupations (1520- 1410 B.C.E.) tools included flaked pre-Cambrian metamorphic rock axes; indicating their relative primitive lifestyle. Although tools became more complex during the second occupation, real…
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During this time period the civilization phases out organic tools and begin to craft goods such as pots, bottles, and textiles. At this time the pottery is perfected and the inhabitants began using spearheads to hunt using spears. The society progressed and technological advances allowed the civilization to hunt and store items differently. This stratum also holds the first burial site. This burial is impersonal and the man is left with nothing but himself. The person was buried alone and without any sort of tokens from…
Cahokia’s were known to have a fascination with ornamentation, like beads made from shells thousands of miles away. Items like this were traded so extensively that many times there were used cement alliances from other tribes in surrounding areas. Generosity and gift giving was also a common practice to help boost status and helped climb up the social ladder. Meanwhile Cahokia was in the middle of a trade extensive trade network containing a small hardware industry. Excavations at the Cahokia Mounds State Historical Site reveal that the hardware dwindles as it gets further from the city. This suggests that…
There are many significant environmental and or physical geographic factors that contribute to the development of early human society in Mesopotamia. The Flat Mesopotamian land was built up from mud and clay deposited by two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates. These twin rivers come down from the mountains in the north, cut southeastward through hilly grasslands, and finally cross the plain they created to reach the Persian Gulf. (Levy & Hanson-Harding, 2012, p. 12) The human society grew beginning with the Sumerians, who lived near the mouths of these rivers. This gave them access to the land. The rich and fertile land produced copious crops of flax, wheat, beans, olives, and grapes. This commodity drew people together and a society civilization began.…
The Indians farmed the land on the mesa tops and in the valleys. They developed complicated irrigation systems to provide their crops with water. They…
Paleo-Indians modified ways of life 3. Climate Change a. Rising sea levels b. Glacier runoff> rivers c. Plains>forests d. Wider variety of plants and animals arose 4. Gender roles more important a. Men fish/hunt b. Women farm 5. Maize=important crop II. Cultural Diversity c. 2500 BC- 1500 AD 1.…
The first time I heard about the Mound Builders, which was in this class, these people seemed like a very primitive group. What was so exciting about having the skill of piling up a bunch of dirt. Then I was able to see some of these mounds and the scale was nothing I had imagined. These mounds were huge and also contained distinct structural shapes. Tombs, houses, and religious structures were constructed in or on top of the mounds. What made the edifices even more amazing was the time period they were built. Constructed all the way back to 3000 B.C., the mounds rivaled the most advanced engineering techniques in the world.…
great basin people had mostly gathered plants because of it was very important to them. the indians didn’t like to rely on meat because eventually they would go extinct so they stored them until they needed to really eat them. they also had liked to collect piñon nuts. these people had beed able to adapt to these types of environments.…
- Mound Builders (Ohio River valley), Anasazi (Southwest) sustained large settlements after incorporating corn planting.…
Constructed a community centered on a series of giant semicircular mounds overlooking the Mississippi River as a commercial and governmental center whose residents established trade routes…
The Mississippian culture was the concluding prehistoric ethnic development that took place in North American, enduring from approximately 700 AD to the period of the arrival of the first European travelers. This culture extended over a boundless vicinity of the Southeast as well as the mid-continent. The aforementioned was constructed on concentrated agriculture of squash, corn, beans, and other crops, which occasioned in large attentiveness of inhabitants in metropolises alongside riverine bottomlands. The Mississippian people were experiences craftsmen which were equipped to crop a diversity of characteristic pottery, several which were painted. Additionally was an industrialized widespread of bone, stone, and shell relics which were utilized…
Egypt and Mesopotamia developed a way of agriculture in order to provide food for their people and survive. Their agriculture techniques involved the construction of canals in order to bring water farther from the river, so their crops wouldn’t get destructed when the water from the river flow.…
China and Mesopotamia had several ways of interacting with the environment. China`s type of farming differed from Mesopotamian`s farming style. China used terrace farming while Mesopotamian`s still used a little of hunting a gathering.Chinese people used terraces to adapt to the environment, Mesopotamian`s also used hunting and gathering to adapt to the habitat. Terraces were used because terrace fields decreased erosions;hunting and gathering was used because the river valley flooded often. While China had the Huang-He River Valley, Mesopotamia had the Tigris and Euphrates River Valley which both had to make people adapt to them. In China people had to built complex flood control systems and Mesopotamia had to build bridges.The flood control systems helped by guiding the water when it flooded, the bridges helped people cross the rivers.…
Although Mesopotamia , Egypt, and The Indus Valley share a lot of physical environments in the development of early civilization, there are minor differences in cultural, agricultural, and social structures. Different civilization are depended on their traits; For example, certain agricultural, political, environmental, and social; Filled with sophisticated monuments, certain trade routes, and how early humans survive.…