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THE EARLY INDIGENOUS CULTURES AND NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE SOUTHEAST U.S.
PALEO-INDIANS IN THE OHIO VALLEY
13000 BCE — 8000 BCE
While glaciers still covered much of North America, people first arrived from Asia by the ancient land bridge to Alaska, or by boat.
Over many generations they spread across the continent.
People we call “Paleo-indians” were in the Ohio Valley as early as 13,000 years ago, living in wandering bands, gathering plants, and hunting. Their distinctive spear points have been found in the bones of long extinct ice age animals like the wooly mammoth.
They were skilled stone workers, and discovered the beautiful rainbow-colored stone from Ohio's Flint Ridge, used by their descendants for centuries and still prized by flintknappers today.
THE PALEO-INDIANS
They were the ancestors of today's American Indigenous peoples. They were hunter-gatherers who migrated into North America. The most popular theory asserts that they came to the Americas via Beringia, the land mass now covered by the ocean waters of the Bering Strait. Small lithic-stage peoples (The time period gets its name from the appearance of "Lithic flaked" stone tools), followed megafauna like bison, mammoth, and caribou, thus gaining the modern nickname "big-game hunters." Groups of people may also have traveled into North America on shelf or sheet ice along the northern Pacific coast, or in boats along the West coast
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19 марта 2025