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Mississippian

Woodland

Paleo

Evolve

horticulture

Chiefdom

Prehistory

Archaic

Lived from 10,000-8,000 B.C. Lived in small groups. Were nomadic hunter-gathers. Ate Large game and hunted with the spear and atlatl.

science of cultivating plants and trees

8,000-1,000 B.C. This hunter gatherer group were nomadic at first then began to settle in semi permanent homes. They hunted small games with the spear and Atlatl, fished and created pottery.

The time period before written record was keep.

1,000-1,600 A.D. This grew created permanent settled with palisades surrounding them. Organized into chiefdoms. Maize was the most important crop. Mound builders, burial of dead and adorned themselves with jewelry and tattoos.

To change over time.

The political class structure used in the Mississippian societies.

1,000 B.C to 1,000 A.D. This culture settled in permanent homes. The first to grow their own food and invented the bow and arrow. Mound builders who buried their dead.