Elaborate religious ceremonies; built cone-shaped burial mounds for dead; wore jewelry
Small game such as deer, bear, turkey, rabbit, fish, nuts and berries, some crops (squash and sunflowers)
1000 B.C. to 1000 A.D.
Semi-permanent shelters, traveled in small groups called bands or clans
8000 B.C. to 1000 B.C.
No fixed shelter; nomadic; pit houses
Little evidence of religion; some body ornaments have been found in some burial pits
Spears, grooved axes, pipes and pottery
Bow and arrow, pottery
Small game such as deer, bear, turkey, rabbit, reptiles, fish, berries, nuts and fruit
Grew tobacco to use in ceremonies; built centers of relgious ceremonies; continued practice of burying their dead
Small villages bult from wood and clay mixture called wattle and daub; larger groups called tribes
Large animals such as bison, mammoth, ground sloth and mastodon
Spears and Atlatl
Larger villages with more advanced permanent shelters; ceremonial buildings
700 A.D. to 1600 A.D.
Similar to Woodland; stone hoes, copper headdresses
Very little evidence of religion; two bodies found buried with red powder; may suggest belief in afterlife
Before 10,000 years ago
Crops (maize, beans, pumpkins, squash) grew most of what was eaten
