GA's Early Beginnings: Native Americans

The first inhabitants of Georgia who lived between 10,000 and 13,000 years ago were known as what?

• Archaic
• Mississippian
• Paleo
• Woodland

Which people were the FIRST to make and use pottery?

• Archaic
• Mississippian
• Paleo
• Woodland

Which of the following was a major development of the Woodland Period?

• atlatl
• bow and arrow
• pottery
• tattoos

According to some archaeologists, during which period was the bow and arrow invented?

• Archaic
• Mississippian
• Paleoindian
• Woodland

Which statement provides the BEST evidence to support the conclusion that the Paleo Indians were the earliest and LEAST advanced prehistoric culture in North America?

• The Woodland Indians were the first native culture to develop a system of agriculture.
  
• While later cultures lived in settled, permanent villages, the Paleo Indians lived a nomadic lifestyle.
• The Archaic Indians lived in shallow, oval-pit houses and larger rectangular wattle-and-daub dwellings.
  
• The Woodland Indians were more advanced than the Archaic cultures; their tools included the bow-and-arrow.

Had advanced systems of agriculture; were able to grow corn, beans, squash, and pumpkins.

• Paleo
• Archaic
• Woodland
• Mississippian

Which group shows evidence of pottery making?

• Paleo
• Archaic
• Woodland
• Mississippian

Some of the earliest Indian groups in Georgia were:

• Paleo, Archaic, Chiefland, and Tomahawk
• Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian
• Paleo, Archaic, Alabamian, Plains
• Seminole, Paleo, Archaic, and Cherokee

Flat-topped burial mounds were built by: 

• Seminole Indians
• Plains Indians
• European Indians
• Mississippian Indians

Which early Native culture built large ceremonial buildings and lived in large villages?

• Paleo
• Archaic
• Woodland
• Mississippian