Prehistoric Natives in Texas

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Prehistoric Natives in Texas

• Prehistory is the time BEFORE recorded history.
  What does that mean?
• The first natives were hunter gatherers. How did
  they get food?
• Europeans provided the first RECORDED history in
  North America.
• Native Americans did leave EVIDENCE of their
  existence though, through artifacts. What are
  some examples of artifacts?

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Prehistoric Natives in Texas

• What is a pictograph?
• What is a petroglyph?
• Who is an archeologist?
• There are three main time periods of Prehistory
  in Texas Prehistoric, Archaic, and late
  Prehistoric.

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Prehistoric Natives in Texas

• Prehistoric period was up until 6000 BC.
• These people were NOMADIC, which means what?
• They hunted with flint tipped spears.
• Also drove herds off cliffs and into swamps.
• Ate Pemmican. What is this?

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Prehistoric Natives in Texas

• Archaic period refers to 6000 BC to 700 AD.
• A climate change (making it warmer) allowed
  people to develop new food sources.
• These people developed many tools, like the
  atlatl.
• They traveled in bands. What is a band? Dont say
  Hannah Montana.
• Periodically they would come together to hunt
  larger sources of food.

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Prehistoric Natives in Texas

• Late Prehistoric refers to 700 AD to 1500 AD.
• Why was 1500 AD the end of Prehistory in Texas?
• Natives began to farm during this period.
• They developed ideas about Society and Religion.
  How? Why?
• There were several main types of Indians in Texas
  by this time Southeastern, Plains, Gulf Coast,
  and Puebloan.