Early Arkansas Flashcards
Nomads
Paleo
Used the Ataltl- helps throw spears
Archaic
Made their houses on ledges and cliffs where Rocky overhang of Cliff walls protected from wind/rain
Woodland
Trade increased, including rocks, minerals, and salt.
Woodland
Decorated pottery and made it stronger
Mississippian
Worship the sun
Mississippian
Had large farms
Mississippian/Woodland
What caused the decline of population?
Disease, warfare, enslavement, and Indian land want it.
Disease –
Not Amune to European diseases
Warfare –
European explores brought guns
Enslavement –
Not good at slaves because of all the diseases the Europeans brought over so they could not work because they got sick
Indian land wanted –
Move to Oklahoma because they’re laying got taken
Gruel as baby food
Mississippian/Woodland
A complex farming society
Caddo
What was the men’s hairstyle?
Scalp lock
Tall dome shaped grass houses
Caddo
Building mounts to put religious leaders bodies
Caddo
Traded salt
Caddo
Lived in a circle or Plaza
Quapaw
Close ally to the French
Quapaw
Had sky people and earth people
Osage
Lots of villages and rectangular shaped houses
Osage
Used stone and animal bones as tools
Paleo