Post on 23-Dec-2015
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
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
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