UTAH’S EARLY PEOPLE

PALEO-INDIANS

11,000-13,000 Years Ago

PALEO-INDIANS

• Archaeologists found leather scraps, pieces of string, nets of twine, fabric, basic fragments, and bone and wood tools such as knives and millstones in Danger and Hogup Cave

PALEO-INDIANS

Lived in Utah and all over North America up to Canada

PALEO-INDIANS

• Nomadic hunters, traveled for food, never settled for long

• Ate seeds, buts, wild plants

• Hunted saber-toothed tiger, wooly mammoth

PALEO-INDIANS

Chipped hard stones for points, lashed to strong sticks for spears

ARCHAIC PEOPLE• Archaic People/Desert

Gatherers• Lived in Utah and

North America for 6400 years after Paleo-Indians were gone

• Wicki-ups that moved from place to place—nomadic

• Lived off the land for food and animals

• Made baskets for food, carrying and water, shoes, ropes, string, thread, nets, traps, robes, blankets

• Major weapon: Atlatl (spear thrower)

ARCHAIC PEOPLE

• Wicki-ups that moved from place to place—nomadic

ARCHAIC PEOPLE

• Collected duck eggs

• Fished for trout

• Cattails

• Hunted deer

• Gathered berries and nuts

ARCHAIC PEOPLE

Hunted with the atlatl

ANASAZI

• Anasazi People• Lived along San Juan River in

4-corners area• Pit houses—permanent

villages• Hunted and gathered and

farmed also• Built dams/reservoirs for

water because land was dry• Made bows and arrows• We do not know why they left

the area

ANASAZI

Lived in the four corners region

Called the “Ancient Ones”

ANASAZI

• Pit houses—permanent villages

Cliff dwellings

ANASAZI

ANASAZI

• Built dams/reservoirs for water because land was dry

• Floodplain agriculture

ANASAZI

Domesticated turkeys

ANASAZI

Grew

• Pumkins

• Squash

• Beans

Food storage allowed them time to develop culture. What is culture?

ANASAZI

• Hunted with bows and arrows

ANASAZI

Developed religious practices

• Kivas

ANASAZI

Cannablism

ANASAZI

Mysteriously disappeared

• Drought

• Conquered by enemy tribes

• Migrated to new lands

FREMONT PEOPLE

FREMONT PEOPLE

They are named after the Fremont River where many of the artifacts were found

FREMONT ROCK ART

FREMONT PEOPLE

Lived in Pit Houses

FREMONT PEOPLE

• Most Fremont people were full time farmers

• They grew corn, beans, and squash in small pots along the rivers

• Also continued to be hunter/gathers to survive