UTAH’S EARLY PEOPLE
PALEO-INDIANS 11,000-13,000 Years Ago
PALEO-INDIANS Archaeologists found leather scraps, pieces of string, nets of twine, fabric, basic fragments, and bone and wood tools such as knives and millstones in Danger and Hogup Cave
PALEO-INDIANS Lived in Utah and all over North America up to Canada
PALEO-INDIANS Nomadic hunters, traveled for food, never settled for long Ate seeds, buts, wild plants Hunted saber- toothed tiger, wooly mammoth
PALEO-INDIANS Chipped hard stones for points, lashed to strong sticks for spears
ARCHAIC PEOPLE Archaic People/Desert Gatherers Lived in Utah and North America for 6400 years after Paleo-Indians were gone Wicki-ups that moved from place to place—nomadic Lived off the land for food and animals Made baskets for food, carrying and water, shoes, ropes, string, thread, nets, traps, robes, blankets Major weapon: Atlatl (spear thrower)
ARCHAIC PEOPLE Wicki-ups that moved from place to place—nomadic
ARCHAIC PEOPLE Collected duck eggs Fished for trout Cattails Hunted deer Gathered berries and nuts
ARCHAIC PEOPLE Hunted with the atlatl
ANASAZI Anasazi People Lived along San Juan River in 4-corners area Pit houses—permanent villages Hunted and gathered and farmed also Built dams/reservoirs for water because land was dry Made bows and arrows We do not know why they left the area
ANASAZI Lived in the four corners region Called the “Ancient Ones”
ANASAZI Pit houses—permanent villages
Cliff dwellings ANASAZI
Built dams/reservoirs for water because land was dry Floodplain agriculture
ANASAZI Domesticated turkeys
ANASAZI Grew Pumkins Squash Beans Food storage allowed them time to develop culture. What is culture?
ANASAZI Hunted with bows and arrows
ANASAZI Developed religious practices Kivas
ANASAZI Cannablism
ANASAZI Mysteriously disappeared Drought Conquered by enemy tribes Migrated to new lands
FREMONT PEOPLE
They are named after the Fremont River where many of the artifacts were found
FREMONT ROCK ART
FREMONT PEOPLE Lived in Pit Houses
FREMONT PEOPLE Most Fremont people were full time farmers They grew corn, beans, and squash in small pots along the rivers Also continued to be hunter/gathers to survive