Angelina
People arrive in the Americas

1. Earliest Americans- hunters and settled down after developing farming
2. Asian hunters followed the food into Americas
3. The settlers were hunter gatherers
4. When the ice age ended the started hunting fish and small animals
5. The hunting range grew smaller and they made shelters so the food would last longer
6. Moved south
Vocabulary

1. Bering strait- land bridge
2. Hunter gatherers- hunt meat gather berries and other things

Gianna


1.First Farmers
• 9,000 yrs. Ago first American Farmers
• Mexicans grew maize-first corn
• Practice of growing maize spread to Central and South America
• America farmers also grew beans and squash

2. Examining the Evidence
• Searching for remains tells archeologists how people lived
A.- Carved bone at Old Crow River
-Scientists Harrington searched the Loucheau village in Canada with help of Loucheau Peter Lord
-Found carved bine along Old Crow River
-Bone 27,000 yrs. old
B.- The Native Americans
-Descendants of Asian Hunters
-Culture- A total way of life people follow
-2 major: Native American Mound Builders and Anasazi
C. Stone Spearheads found
-Found in Clovis
- New Mexico showed Native Americans
-11,000 yrs. old


The Mound Builders
Jake
1. Settled Midwest/Southeast (2700 years ago)
2. Name-after mounds they built
3. Different shapes and sizes
Mystery of Mounds
1. Artifacts in mounds
2. Mound-for religious purposes
The Adena
1. Mound builders
2. West Virginia and Ohio
3. Culture flourished 2700-1800 years ago
4. Hunter-gathers, some crops
5. Permanent homes
The Hopewell
1. Mound builders
2. All southeast America
3. At high point 2100-1500 years ago
4. Traded
Mississippian Culture
1. Most advanced mound builders
2. Farmers, traders (near rivers)
3. 1500 A.D.- disappeared

Julia--- September 7th History notes
Cliff Dwellers

-cliff dwellers, groups of native Americans
-built houses on walls of csnyons and under overhang of caves
-cliff dweller group was Anasazi
lived in present day Arizona, Colorado and Utah 100-1300

Anasazi Pueblos
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-Anasazi built homes the Spanish called pueblos or villages
-pueblos were made of stone, timber, and adobe brick
-adobe bricks were made of earth and straw
-pueblos made up of apartment homes stacked on each other
-some were 4-5 stories high
-first built in canyon walls, then on sides of cliffs
-farmers climbed cliffs to tend for their farms.
-grew corn,squash, beans, tobacco and cotton
-turkeys were raised
-made pottery and made jewelry of stone, shell and metal
-Anasazi traded with people in Mexico
-left clifts in 1300
-said to leave because of drought or invaders