1. NEW MEXICO-EARLY PEOPLE CHAPTER 2

2. EARLY PEOPLE CAME FROM ASIA TO AMERICAS

3. EARLY PEOPLE DEVELOP DISTINCT/DIFFERENT WAYS OF LIFE Archaeologists study artifacts about the Early People’s Culture

4. FIRST NEW MEXICANS ARE BIG-GAME HUNTERS

5. CLOVIS PEOPLE-EASTERN NEW MEXICO First big-game hunters in Eastern New Mexico

6. FOLSOM PEOPLE Evidence of these big game hunters was found by George McJunkin, a former slave in 1908

7. PEOPLE OF THE DESERT CULTURE LIVE IN NEW MEXICO Ice Age Ended-climate of New Mexico changed to warmer and drier grasslands

8. DESERT DWELLERS BECOME GARDENERS Desert Dwellers stopped hunting big game; rather hunted deer, rodents (smaller game) and began planting corn Desert Dwellers were known for their 1.baskets to gather and store food 2.Milling Stone to grind seeds into flour

9. DESERT DWELLERS Desert Dwellers were Nomadic-Wanderers- with no permanent home

10. MOGOLLON CULTURE Evolved from the Desert Dwellers Difference from the Desert Dwellers were they were sedentary-settled down

11. MOGOLLON LIVE IN WEST-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO Lived near the people of Mexico so they learned new ways of farming First farmers of New Mexico

12. ANASAZI LIVE IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO Anasazi culture lived in the Four Corners Area

13. ANASAZI BECAME VILLAGERS Skilled Small Game Hunters and Farmers

14. ANASAZI BUILT HOMES ABOVE GROUND Pueblos –Spanish word that means Towns

15. ANASAZI BUILT HOMES ABOVE GROUND Underground religious rooms known as the Kiva

16. ANASAZI BUILT HOMES ABOVE GROUND Archeologists believe that Anasazi women were property owners

17. ANASAZI BUILT HOMES ABOVE GROUND Pueblo Bonito is at Chaco Canyon