Unit 1: Geography of Georgia/Georgia’s Beginnings

1. Unit 1: Geography of Georgia/Georgia’s Beginnings Prehistoric Peoples

2. Lesson 1: Prehistoric Peoples ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What were the major characteristics and time periods for the Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian Periods?

3. Archeologist • Scientist who study artifacts to learn about the lives of early people

4. Artifact • Items such as pottery pieces, weapons, tools, and jewelry that were made by humans.

5. Tribe • Group of people who share a common ancestry, name, and way of living

6. Early Migration • Migration- movement of people from one place to another. • The first people migrated to North America between 30,000 BC to 10,000 BC

7. How did they get there? • ICE AGE

8. For two million years North America was covered inICE

9. As a result, a temporary land bridge linking Asia to North America, was opened.

10. Paleo Culture

11. Paleo Time Period • 10,000 BC to 8,000 BC 0 8,000 10,000 9,000

12. Paleo Period • Paleo from the Greek work “Very Old” • Also called Stone Age

13. Paleo Period-Shelter • Nomadic • Roaming • Hunters and Gatherers • Temporary Shelters • Dwelling • Caves • Huts built from trees, mud, stone

14. Paleo- Tools • Used “atlatl”: stone sling-like implement that threw darts from a longer distance

15. Paleo- Tools • Used Clovis Point Spears

16. Hunted BIG Animals

17. Mammoths

18. Ground Sloth

19. Bison

20. Paleo Period • Average lifespan about 30 years

21. Belief in Afterlife • Buried with artifacts • Covered in red powder

22. Mammoth Hunt