Prehistoric People of Georgia

Visual Weapons/Tools Diet Who did it first? Other 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5

Visual 100 Weapon used here? Check Your Answer

Visual 100 Answer: Atlalt Back to the Game Board

Visual 200 Identify this picture. Check Your Answer

Visual 200 Answer: Middens Back to the Game Board

Visual 300 Check Your Answer Which prehistoric Indian tradition produced this pottery? Check Your Answer

Visual 300 Answer: Woodland Back to the Game Board

During which period was this effigy mound constructed? Visual 400 During which period was this effigy mound constructed? Check Your Answer

Visual 400 Answer: Woodland Back to the Game Board

Visual 500 Check Your Answer Which Native American group lived in villages such as this? Check Your Answer

Visual 500 Answer: Mississippians Back to the Game Board

Of what material were MOST Paleo tools made of ? Weapons/Tools 100 Question: Of what material were MOST Paleo tools made of ? Check Your Answer

Weapons/Tools 100 Answer: Stone Back to the Game Board

Projectile point associated with the Paleo Indians? Weapons/Tools 200 Question: Projectile point associated with the Paleo Indians? Check Your Answer

Weapons/Tools 200 Answer: Clovis point Back to the Game Board

Which people were the FIRST to use the atlatl? Weapons/Tools 300 Question: Which people were the FIRST to use the atlatl? Check Your Answer

Weapons/Tools 300 Answer: Paleo Back to the Game Board

The bow and arrow first appeared during this period? Weapons/Tools 400 Question: The bow and arrow first appeared during this period? Check Your Answer

Weapons/Tools 400 Answer: Woodland Back to the Game Board

A defensive wall built around a Mississippian village? Weapons/Tools 500 Question: A defensive wall built around a Mississippian village? Check Your Answer

Weapons/Tools 500 Answer: Palisade Back to the Game Board

Paleo people would be described as? Diet 100 Question: Paleo people would be described as? Check Your Answer

Diet 100 Answer: Nomadic, Prehistoric, Very Old Back to the Game Board

Large wooly animal hunted by Paleo Indians? Diet 200 Question: Large wooly animal hunted by Paleo Indians? Check Your Answer

Diet 200 Answer: Mammoth Back to the Game Board

Indian tradition known for their advanced farming techniques? Diet 300 Question: Indian tradition known for their advanced farming techniques? Check Your Answer

Diet 300 Answer: Mississippian Back to the Game Board

During which prehistoric period did large game become extinct? Diet 400 Question: During which prehistoric period did large game become extinct? Check Your Answer

Diet 400 Answer: Archaic Back to the Game Board

Diet 500 Question: Mississippian Indians relied heavily on this agricultural crop? Check Your Answer

Diet 500 Answer: Corn Back to the Game Board

Pottery first appeared during this period? Firsts 100 Question: Pottery first appeared during this period? Check Your Answer

Firsts 100 Answer: Archaic Back to the Game Board

Designs on pottery first appeared during this period? Firsts 200 Question: Designs on pottery first appeared during this period? Check Your Answer

Firsts 200 Answer: Woodland Back to the Game Board

Effigy mounds first appeared during this period? Firsts 300 Question: Effigy mounds first appeared during this period? Check Your Answer

Firsts 300 Answer: Woodland Back to the Game Board

Who were the first people to use burial mounds? Firsts 400 Question: Who were the first people to use burial mounds? Check Your Answer

Firsts 400 Answer: Woodland Back to the Game Board

Most advanced of the Indian traditions? Firsts 500 Question: Most advanced of the Indian traditions? Check Your Answer

Firsts 500 Answer: Mississippian Back to the Game Board

Oldest known Native American culture? Other 100 Question: Oldest known Native American culture? Check Your Answer

Other 100 Answer: Paleo Back to the Game Board

During which prehistoric period did horticulture begin? Other 200 Question: During which prehistoric period did horticulture begin? Check Your Answer

Other 200 Answer: Archaic Back to the Game Board

The prehistoric Indians cultivation of plants resulted in? Other 300 Question: The prehistoric Indians cultivation of plants resulted in? Check Your Answer

The establishment of permanent settlements Other 300 Answer: The establishment of permanent settlements Back to the Game Board

Why have so few Paleo artifacts been found in any one place? Other 400 Question: Why have so few Paleo artifacts been found in any one place? Check Your Answer

People moved frequently and did not leave many artifacts behind. Other 400 Answer: People moved frequently and did not leave many artifacts behind. Back to the Game Board

First Indian tradition to live in tribes? Other 500 Question: First Indian tradition to live in tribes? Check Your Answer

Other 500 Answer: Woodland Back to the Game Board

Why did the Archaic people move frequently? Grab Bag 600 Question: Why did the Archaic people move frequently? Check Your Answer

Answer: to find enough food Grab Bag 600 Answer: to find enough food

Grab Bag 700 Question: Why do archaeologists believe that prehistoric Indians believed in some form of life after death? Check Your Answer

Grab Bag 700 Answer: Burial mounds contained items such as tools, tobacco pipes, and weapons.

Which early people grew tobacco to use in ceremonies? Grab Bag 800 Question: Which early people grew tobacco to use in ceremonies? Check Your Answer

Answer: Mississippians Grab Bag 800 Answer: Mississippians

Grab Bag 900 Question: Which prehistoric people were the FIRST to paint and tattoo their bodies? Check Your Answer

Answer: Mississippians Grab Bag 900 Answer: Mississippians

Question: Give 3 characteristics of the Paleo culture. Grab Bag 1000 Question: Give 3 characteristics of the Paleo culture. Check Your Answer

Grab Bag 1000 1st – Lived During the Ice Age 10,000 – 8,000 BC Giant Bison, Mammoths, Sloths Camped out in open Sometimes dug pits to stay warm Didn’t stay in one place for very long -- Nomadic Didn’t live long Clovis Point – jabbing and killing animals Developed the atlatl and hunted primarily w/long wooden spears Short Life Span (30 – 40 Years Old)

Give 3 characteristics of the Archaic culture. Grab Bag 1000 Question: Give 3 characteristics of the Archaic culture. Check Your Answer

Grab Bag 1000 Warmer climate Large animals died Small game (rabbits, deer, Atlatl squirrel Less Nomadic Clay Pottery Life after Death Collected nuts, roots, fruits, Middens (ate oysters seeds, and berries. & shellfish) Developed tools to crush seed, berries, and nuts. Grooved axes to cut down trees and bushes Used pottery to save and plant seeds for plants and seeds for growing seasons (horticulture) Caught turtles, fish, shellfish, birds, and smaller mammals. Made hooks and nets for fishing. Evidence indicates that they moved each season in search of food

Give 3 characteristics of the Woodland culture. Grab Bag 1000 Question: Give 3 characteristics of the Woodland culture. Check Your Answer

Other 1000 Earthen mounds – Kolomoki Effigies -- Rock Eagle Bow and Arrow Saved Seeds Tribes Did Not Move Around as Much Trade Built cone-shaped burial mounds

Give 3 characteristics of the Mississippian culture. Grab Bag 1000 Question: Give 3 characteristics of the Mississippian culture. Check Your Answer

Grab Bag 1000 Mississippi River Corn and Beans Harvested Crops Community Storehouses Constant Supply of Food Permanent Settlements with Palisades and Moats Chiefdoms Painted and Tattooed Bodies Also Known as the Temple Mound Period Large villages with impressive buildings

Grab Bag 100 Question: What was a midden? Check Your Answer

Garbage piles of shells Other 100 Garbage piles of shells

Grab Bag 500 Question: Why do archaeologists claim that learning to make and use pottery was one of greatest contributions of the Archaic Indians ? Check Your Answer

Pottery could be used to store food. Grab Bag 500 Pottery could be used to store food.

What is a barter economy? Grab Bag 200 Question: What is a barter economy? Check Your Answer

trading items or services without the use of money Grab Bag 200 trading items or services without the use of money

Grab Bag 300 Question: Why do archaeologists think that prehistoric Indians believed in some form of life after death? Check Your Answer

burial mounds for dead contained tools, tobacco pipes, and weapons Grab Bag 300 burial mounds for dead contained tools, tobacco pipes, and weapons

Grab Bag 400 Question: What identifies the Mississippian civilization as being more advanced than the others? Check Your Answer

Grab Bag 400 sophisticated farming methods, tools, dress and fashion styles, villages.

Question: What are artifacts? Grab Bag 100 Question: What are artifacts? Check Your Answer

Grab Bag 100 items left behind by ancient people such as pottery shards, weapons, tools and jewelry

Why are there so few Paleo sites in Georgia? Grab Bag 600 Question: Why are there so few Paleo sites in Georgia? Check Your Answer

Paleos were nomadic and did not leave many artifacts in one place. Grab Bag 600 Paleos were nomadic and did not leave many artifacts in one place.

Grab Bag 800 Question: What are probable reasons why the Mississippian civilization disappeared so early? Check Your Answer

tribal warfare, moved away in search of food, disease or starvation. Grab Bag 800 tribal warfare, moved away in search of food, disease or starvation.

Grab Bag 400 Question: What factor helped prehistoric Indians establish permanent settlements? Check Your Answer

cultivating plants as food (horticulture) Grab Bag 400 cultivating plants as food (horticulture)

How long did the Woodland Indians live? Grab Bag 200 Question: How long did the Woodland Indians live? Check Your Answer

Other 200 2,000 years

Final Jeopardy

Give the time period that people built small, dome shaped huts with grass tops as shelters.

1,000 BC – 1,000 AD

VOCABULARY

culture religion antiquities Archaic The beliefs, traditions, music, art, and social institutions of a group of people who share common experiences culture religion antiquities Archaic

culture

moat effigy midden Beringia A wide ditch around a village palisade used to provide protection against attack moat effigy midden Beringia

moat

market economy traditional economy barter economy global economy An economy based on the ability to trade or exchange goods or services without the use of money market economy traditional economy barter economy global economy

barter economy

chiefdom effigy bartering mayor A social and political institution that developed during the Mississippian Indian period which would consist of one to many villages chiefdom effigy bartering mayor

chiefdom

Bits of broken pottery left by earlier societies sherds mastidons Archaics D) palisades

sherds

archaeologists psychologists anthropologists geologists People who dig into the earth to find artifacts that will tell us something about early inhabitants archaeologists psychologists anthropologists geologists

archaeologists

ancient relics culture antiquities anthropologists horticulture

antiquities

A large extinct mammal from the elephant family mammoth bison giant sloth camel

mammoth

clovis points effigy projectile points atlatl The general term archaeologists use for the stone points (“heads”) of spears and arrows made by Indians clovis points effigy projectile points atlatl

projectile points

Garbage heaps of discarded oyster and mussel shells moat effigy middens Beringia

middens

stilts stonewall palisade compound A wall made of tall posts built around Mississippian Indian villages for protection stilts stonewall palisade compound

palisade

Relating to a more primitive time; old Woodland Archaic Paleo Mississippian

Archaic

Leaf-shaped flint projectile points having fluted sides palisade clovis points atlatl clans

clovis points

An image of a person or an animal moat effigy middens Beringia

effigy

Russia peninsula middens Beringia The exposed land between Alaska and Siberia during the Ice Age that served as a bridge between North America and Asia Russia peninsula middens Beringia

Beringia

A type of rock that is formed in successive layers moat artifacts projectile points shale

shale

archaeologists psychologists anthropologists geologists People who use artifacts along with cave drawings, well-traveled pathways, and oral history to study the culture of a group archaeologists psychologists anthropologists geologists

anthropologists

wanderers sherds clans tribes nomads

nomads

A group of people who share a common ancestry, name, and way of life moat tribe culture clan

tribe

moat artifacts projectile points shale Pottery shards (pieces), weapons, tools, jewelry, or any items that were made by people moat artifacts projectile points shale

artifacts

very old Woodland Archaic Paleo Mississippian

Paleo

Groups of people who believe themselves related by blood tribe effigy middens clans

clans

sherds clovis point bow and arrow atlatl A spear-throwing tool developed by early prehistoric Indians to increase the speed and distance a spear could be thrown sherds clovis point bow and arrow atlatl

atlatl

The science of cultivating plants and trees biology horticulture chemistry bioculture

horticulture