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- Quick study: Mississippian Period
- A “cheat sheet” covering basic information about the Mississippian Period and its key characteristics.
- Quick study: Woodland Period
- A “cheat sheet” covering basic information about the Woodland Period and its key characteristics.
- 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
- Pottery traditions
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.5
- Students will learn how Indian people of North Carolina made and used coiled pottery, summarize why archaeologists study pottery, and make and decorate a replica of a North Carolina coiled pot.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- A comprehensive study of North Carolina Indian tribes
- Students will apply their research skills of gathering and validating information to study the eight state recognized American Indian tribes of North Carolina in order to create an Honors U.S. History Project. Students then will create a comprehensive study of those tribes to be compiled into a notebook to be copied and shared with the eighth grade teachers of North Carolina History in our county.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- 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)
- 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.
- 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 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)
- Decomposition in freshwater
- This lesson includes hands-on activities to demonstrate the process of decomposition in a freshwater ecosystem. It also focuses on the importance of decomposition and its critical role in the food chain.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By Heather Lanier.
- 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.
- Peoples of the Piedmont
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.4
- In the years between 1000 and 1200 CE, Native life in the north and central Piedmont hadn’t changed much from prior Woodland times. People still lived in small hamlets whose houses strung out along river and stream banks. At times, the hamlets sat empty when people left to hunt and gather wild foods. But times were about to change. Around 900 CE, corn agriculture began. As a result, population began to grow, people began gathering in larger villages, and conflicts erupted.
- Format: article
- Archaeobotany
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.6
- Students will use pictures of seeds, an activity sheet, and a graph to identify seven seeds and the conditions in which they grow. They will also infer ancient plant use by interpreting archaeobotanical samples and determine changing plant use by Native North Carolinians by interpreting a graph of seed frequency over time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 and 8 Science and Social Studies)
- 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
- Archaeology as a career
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.2
- In their study of archaeology as a career, students will read essays and complete an activity to gain an understanding of and appreciation for the career of a professional archaeologist.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- 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.
- Juan Pardo, the Indians of Guatari, and first contact
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.4
- The Guatari Indians lived in an influential settlement near Trading Ford and were led by a female chief. In 1567, they encountered Spanish explorers led by Captain Juan Pardo who came through the North Carolina Piedmont with grand hopes of creating a powerful empire.
- Format: article
- 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.
