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  • Period: 15,000 BCE to 8000 BCE

    Paleo.

    The initial human settlement of georgia took place during one of the most dramatic periods of climate change in recent earth history. Toward the end of the ice age in the late pleistocene epoch. Exactly when human beings first arrived is currently unknown although people had to be present 13,250 years ago. www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
  • Period: 8000 BCE to 1000 BCE

    Archaic.

    The archaic people were hunters and gatherers who lived in small groups or "bands" of twenty to fifty people. Things they hunted would be white tailed deer, black bear, turkey,and other large animals. Things they gathered would be nuts, roots, fruits, seeds,and berries.
  • Period: 1000 BCE to 900 BCE

    Woodland.

    The early woodland is marked by a continuation of many of the innovations that began during the proceeding late archaic. ceramic cooking vessels, which were invented during the late archaic, became sturdier with the substitution of sand and grit temper for the vegetable fiber that had been used previously.
  • Period: 900 BCE to 1600 BCE

    Mississippian.

    Mississippian people were horticulturalists. They grew much of their food in small gardens using simple tools like stone axes,digging sticks, and fire. corn, beans, squash, sunflowers, goose foot, sump weed, and other plants were cultivated.
  • Period: May 21, 1542 to

    Hernando de soto.

    Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States Florida, Georgia, Alabama and most likely Arkansas, and the first documented European to have crossed the Mississippi River.
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