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- Shore-Styers Mill Nature Park
- This primitive site lies alongside a large waterfall, and contains the ruins of a gristmill, circa 1895.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Reedy Creek Nature Center and Preserve
- Discover local biodiversity and natural heritage through hands-on experiences in the natural world.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Intrigue of the Past
- Lesson plans and essays for teachers and students explore North Carolina's past before European contact. Designed for grades four through eight, the web edition of this book covers fundamental concepts, processes, and issues of archaeology, and describes the peoples and cultures of the Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Airlie Gardens
- Environmental education programs in a beautiful setting can be found at this public garden in Wilmington, North Carolina.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- November 23 - November 29, 1753
- In Diary of a journey of Moravians, page 12
- Nov. 23rd. Br. Gottlob held morning prayer, taking as his subject the sufferings and death of Jesus. Then all went to work. Gottlob, Nathanael, and Grube helped burn brush. In the afternoon the Brethren returned with...
- Format: diary/primary source
- Peoples of the mountains
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.5
- During the Mississippian period, corn agriculture became more important in the mountains of North Carolina. More productive agriculture supported larger populations and provided opportunities for accumulating wealth. This brought about increased social ranking and political centralization. The Mountain region was creating its own identity -- an identity that archaeologists tie to the modern-day Cherokee. Archaeologists have given the names Pisgah and Qualla to these Cherokee ancestors.
- Format: article
- The pottery makers
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.4
- Archaeologists do a bit of shrugging when asked about the Woodland—that time and lifeway tucked between 1000 BC and AD 1000. Some things they readily understand, but others leave them wondering.
- The village farmers
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.5
- North Carolina sat on a crossroads by AD 1000. Cultural ideas from other places breezed through it and around it: how to decorate pottery, how to orient political and social life, how to honor the dead, how to structure towns.
