FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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Paleo
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Archaic
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Woodland
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Mississippian
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Woodland cultures were characterized by the raising of corn (maize), beans, and squash, the fashioning of particular styles of pottery, and the building of burial mounds.
Detailed explanation-2: -The most profound change in Woodland Period technology was the invention of the bow and arrow about 1, 500 years ago.
Detailed explanation-3: -Corn was originally domesticated in Mexico by native peoples by about 9, 000 years ago. They used many generations of selective breeding to transform a wild teosinte grass with small grains into the rich source of food that is modern Zea mays.
Detailed explanation-4: -Late Woodland people lived in villages that frequently were larger than Hopewell or Adena hamlets. They continued to grow crops such as sunflowers and squash and, by around A.D. 800, they began to include corn, or maize, in their gardens.