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- Quick study: Paleoindian Period
- A “cheat sheet” covering basic information about the Paleoindian Period and its key characteristics.
- 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)
- Quick study: Archaic Period
- A “cheat sheet” covering basic information about the Archaic Period and its key characteristics.
- Shifting coastlines
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.3
- In their study of North Carolina's changing coastline during the Paleoindian and Archaic periods, students will determine the positions of the coastline at different times and decide what types of archaeological information has been lost due to rising sea levels.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Science and Social Studies)
- North Carolina's first peoples: Introduction
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.1
- An introduction to four essays that present tidbits of North Carolina's Native American history from the time ancient people migrated across the now submerged land bridge connecting Siberia to Alaska during the last Ice Age until European contact.
- Shadows of a people
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.3
- Archaeologists divide North Carolina's prehistory -- the time before contact with Europeans -- into four periods: Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian.
- Format: article
- Quick study: Mississippian Period
- A “cheat sheet” covering basic information about the Mississippian Period and its key characteristics.
- Shadows of North Carolina's past
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.2
- Students will infer past Native American lifeways based on observation, construct a timeline of four major culture periods in Native American history, and compare these lifeways and discuss how they are different and alike.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- The pathfinders
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.2
- An essay covering the pathfinders of the Paleoindian Period. Learn about the trek across Beringia and the lifeways of these early American Indians.
- Shadows of a people: Introduction
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.1
- Lessons in this part stand alone, yet link to and expand on some tidbit in Chapter 3. They focus emphasize that the “Indians” Columbus met were not frozen in time as many people even today believe. Their history is one of time passage, of journeys, of adaptations, of settling, of interactions, of conflict—everything that is the fabric of life.
- Quick study: Woodland Period
- A “cheat sheet” covering basic information about the Woodland Period and its key characteristics.
- The forest people
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.3
- Paleoindian culture died out across North America by 8000 BC. Archaeologists say this was bound to happen. The Ice Age had ended, the megafauna were extinct, and the boreal forests faded as deciduous ones spread across the East in the warmer climate. Faced with significant environmental changes, the Native Americans adapted. Archaeologists call their way of life and the time in which they lived Archaic.
- First peoples
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.1
- Beringia was a wide land bridge between Alaska and Siberia that was periodically exposed during the last Great Ice Age. According to a widely-held theory, the first people to live in North America were Asians who followed animal herds across Beringia. The Paleoindians living in North Carolina by 9000 BCE were descendents of these first North Americans. Nobody knows how long it took before the first Paleoindians reached North Carolina, but the few artifacts they left create an image of their past.
- Format: article
