2. * Archaeologists dig for artifacts that tell us about people of the past. * Artifacts are objects that were made, modified, or used by humans of past cultures. They help us

3. Paleo Archaic Woodland Mississippian

4. * Time: up to 10,000 years ago. * Food Sources: large herds of animals like mammoths and bison, fished, and gathered fruits and nuts * Weapons, Tools, Utensils: tools of stone, and long spears * Shelter: no permanent shelter; they were nomads who lived in semi permanent camps. * Extra: A few Paleo sites in GA  Flint River, Savannah River, Ocmulgee River.

6. * Time: 8000 B.C. to 1000 B.C. * Food Sources: smaller game animals (deer, bears, turtles, turkey), berries/nuts, horticulture. * Weapons, Tools, Utensils: stone axes, drills, pottery, weighted spears, atlatls. * Shelter: banded together into camps toward the end of the period some resided in small oval pits with coverings and stayed longer * Extra: pottery was a great contribution to Native American culture.

8. * Time: 1000 B.C. to 1000 A.D. * Food Sources: hunting, fishing, farming (cleared fields and planted crops), gathering nuts/berries. * Weapons, Tools, Utensils: bow and arrow, stronger pottery. * Shelter: dome-shaped huts from trees and bark, began forming tribes and living in villages * Extra: Pottery began having designs on it, burial mounds built for dead can still be found in Georgia.

9. Kolomoki Mounds – Blakely, GA 1 Great Temple 2 burial 4 ceremonial Rock Eagle Eatonton, GA believed to be a burial mound

10. * Time: 900 A.D. – 1600 A.D. * Food Sources: grew most food (corn, beans, pumpkins, squash, tobacco) * Weapons, Tools, Utensils: bone hoes, digging sticks. * Shelter: larger villages near water sources (Ocmulgee, Oconee, Chatahoochee, and Savannah Rivers). * Extra: beads, earrings, tattoos, head dresses. Priest-chief was head of village. * 1600s  mysteriously disappeared.

11. Etowah Mounds in Cartersville, GA Ocmulgee Indian Mounds Macon, GA Ocmulgee Indian Mounds Macon, GA Nacoochee Mound Helen, GA

12. * Set up in Chiefdoms with a system of levels * Chief- head of the tribe political and religious figures * Nobles- large homes and special food * Commoners- produce food and crafts as well as act a soldiers and laborers * Some speculate the decline was because of overpopulation while others think it was that the chiefs lost control over the chiefdoms and a final theory is disease

13. * A barter economy is one in which items or services are traded instead of money. * The Cherokee and Creek Indians lived in Georgia during the Mississippian Period. * The Cherokee lived in the mountains of North Georgia. * The Creek lived in Southern and Coastal Georgia.