• Approximately 8000 B.C . At the end of the Ice Age the earliest Americans crossed the land bridge into North America

Paleo

• Hunted Large Animals

Paleo

The climate becomes warmer

Archaeic

• Hunted small animals

Archaeic

• Hunted small animals

• No formal writing system

Archaeic

• Used stone tools

Archaeic

• Developed highly organized societies in MS and Ohio river valleys

• Many locations through out MS

• Tribes built burial mounds over tombs, sometimes shaped those mounds like birds or animals

Woodland

• Were called MOUNDBUILDERS

Woodland

• Lived along rivers and streams, learned how to farm

Woodland

• Produced pottery and made copper and stone tools

• Traded outside of MS because of the presence of copper

Woodland

• As villages increased in size they tied together politically

Woodland

• Culture built religious buildings and homes of chiefs on top of their flat rectangular mounds

Mississippians

• Evidence of this culture is through out the Southeast

Mississippians

• 2nd largest mound is Emerald Mound near Natchez

Mississippians

• Villages were built along streams were surrounded by wooden defenses

Mississippians

Farmed maize, beans, and squash

Mississippians

• Hunted with bow and arrow

Mississippians