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Populating Utah. Sources. When discovering history we use two types of resources: Primary sources and secondary sources. Primary Sources are made by people who were there at the time. Secondary Sources are indirect accounts of what happened. Archaeologists.
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Sources • When discovering history we use two types of resources: Primary sources and secondary sources. • Primary Sources are made by people who were there at the time. • Secondary Sources are indirect accounts of what happened.
Archaeologists • Scientist that study people we do not have a written account for. • Use things like clay pots, charred bones, and burial sites. • Can not know everything, because we do not have all the pieces. Ex: Written language
Prehistoric vs. Historic • Prehistoric refers to people before there was any written accounts. • Historic refers to the time in history where we have written accounts.
Danger Cave • Was found by Jesse Jennings • Inside they found leather scraps, piece of strings, net of twine, coarse fabric. • Oldest material was over 11,000 years old. • One of the oldest human sites in Northern America. • Evidence suggest that desert population sparse, hunter-gatherers, cave dwellers
Hogup Cave • Limestone cavern just west of the Great Salt Lake. • Found and studied in the 1960’s • Used for over 8,000 years by different cultures. • First culture used it mainly to harvest pickle weed: probably use it a preservative. • Second culture, Fremont people, used it as a temporary shelter. • Third was used by Shoshone left pottery and animal hides.
Paleo-Indian People • Paleo means ancient • They lived all over North America • Were a hunter-gatherers • Hunted animals that do not exist anymore: mammoths, and sabertooth tiger. • Thin sticks used as spears • They also gathered seeds, nuts, and other wild plants. • Had to move around in order to survive.
The Archaic People • Followed the Paleo-Indian People. • Were once again a hunter-gatherer people. • All over North America. • Ones in Utah were called Desert Gatherers. • Knew where to find foods at certain times in the year. • Built simple open shelters called Wiki-ups out of tree branches and limbs. Disposed of it when they moved on.
Making Baskets, Tools, and Weapons • Baskets made of plant fibers. • Flat baskets to sort dry foods • Deep cone shape baskets to gather. • Tools-made of fibers were used to make shoes, ropes, string, threads, snares and traps. • Atlatl and spear were their main weapon. Atlatl was a spear thrower
Anasazi • Lived near the San Juan River • Hunter-gatherers people but did develop farming. • Dried and store food. Scientist have full rooms of storage. • Signs of Bow and Arrow use. • Irrigated and built dams • Lived in pit houses and apartment dwellings
The Fremont People • Lived in Utah about the same time as the Anasazi people. • Lived in the dry valleys and great basin. • Variety in culture based on trade and environment. • Lived in a pit house
Indians in Utah when Europeans arrived • Ute, Navajo, Paiute, Goshute, Shoshone • Utes took up most of Utah • No state boundaries back then • Culture varied a lot within Native American tribes. • Really spiritual people