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Hist->Pre-Contact: Olmec Gods and Mystical Beliefs
Posted on Wednesday, March 30 @ 00:33:10 CST (9451 reads)

The Olmec had many beliefs. Among these beliefs were chaneques which were dwarf trixters who lived in water falls. They also had their own beliefs in cosmology. The Olmec had natural shrines devoted to the hill on which the shrine was located and the water.

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Hist->Pre-Contact: Olmec Art
Posted on Wednesday, March 30 @ 00:17:58 CST (5358 reads)

The Olmecs had early achievements in art. They made fine pottery and carved jade jewelry.

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Hist->Pre-Contact: Olmec Writing
Posted on Wednesday, March 30 @ 00:10:58 CST (10285 reads)

The Olmec Writing is unique. The Signs are similar to the writing used by the Vai people of West Africa. The Olmecs spoke an aspect of the Manding (Malinke-Bambara) language spoken in West Africa.

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Hist->Pre-Contact: The Olmec Indian Civilization
Posted on Wednesday, March 30 @ 00:07:55 CST (9933 reads)

The Olmec Indianss were a culture of ancient people who lived about 1300-400 B.C. in the East Mexico lowlands.

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Hist->Pre-Contact: Where Did Michigan's First People Live?
Posted on Thursday, January 27 @ 23:07:45 CST (7938 reads)

Where Did Michigan's First People Live?.. KEYWORDS: michigan indian tribes pre-contact michigan indians tribes in Michigan Menominee Chippewa Ojibwa Ottawa Potawatomi Mascowten Sauk Fox Kickapoo Miami

The First People entered the area we call Michigan over 10,000 years ago. They hunted and fished for thousands of years. Yet the environment showed little impact from their lives here.

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Hist->Pre-Contact: Discovery in Wisconsin stirs scientific debate: Did two different cultures meet
Posted on Sunday, April 27 @ 21:03:36 CDT (6312 reads)

KEYWORDS: pre-contact tribal history pre contact tribal history Mississipi Moundbuilders Late Woodland pre-contact tribal history ancient Indian civilizations Wisconsin archeology early people of Wisconsin early people of Illinois ancient cultures ancient people of the US ancient civilizations in the United States archaeological history of Wisconsin Onalaska Wisconsin before A.D. 1000 Late Woodland culture Middle Mississippian cultures effigy-mound builders Cahokia Middle Mississippians Creek Indians Chickasaw Indians Natchez Indians Aztalan Oneota culture Middle Mississippian traditions Oneota pottery effigy-mound people Cahokian cultural blending cannibalism

AUTHOR: Susanne Quick, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel staff writer

Onalaska - Nestled in a beautiful, verdant valley along the Mississippi River, a great feast took place nearly 1,000 years ago.

In what appears to be something like an ancient Thanksgiving dinner - albeit with dog meat instead of turkey - people of two different cultures met, exchanged food, ideas and possibly gave birth to an entirely new cultural tradition.

In a pit of dirt, cleared by bulldozers for the building of a subdivision on the outskirts of Onalaska, Robert "Ernie" Boszhardt, a regional archaeologist from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse's Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center, discovered evidence of a rare cultural exchange, one that he believes will have an impact on the way we interpret and understand Wisconsin archaeology.

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Hist->Pre-Contact: It's in his bones: the story of Kennewick Man
Posted on Tuesday, June 11 @ 13:35:19 CDT (5997 reads)

KEYWORDS: Kennewick Man KENNEWICK MAN kennewick man anthropologist James Chatters 9,500-year-old man Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man and the First Americans 9,000 years ago

AUTHOR: Susan English, Spokesman Review Staff Writer

Author and anthropologist James Chatters knows Kennewick Man better than anyone else alive. In fact, in some ways Chatters may know the 9,500-year-old man better than he knows his own friends.

Chatters says Kennewick Man was in his 40s when he died. He had arthritis in his neck. He spent a lot of time squatting. He carried a lot of heavy things.

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Hist->Pre-Contact: Prehistoric tribes in Canada
Posted on Monday, February 18 @ 22:54:09 CST (5921 reads)

Keywords: prehistoric tribes in Canada First Nations pre-contact tribal history Canadian prehistoric tribe first inhabitants of North America big game hunting culture eastern woodlands old cordilleran ancient hunting and fishing culture boreal archaic early woodland culture

Pre-history: The people and their cultures

The first inhabitants of a largely glacier-covered North America were hunters. They hunted big game animals like the giant sloth and the mammoth, both of which were much larger than any land mammal of the 20th century.

The weapons hunters used were wooden lances with sharp stone heads, made by painstakingly chipping pieces from flint rock.

Historians studying the prehistoric era speculate that hunters made their attacks at very close range, probably when the animal was mired in a bog.

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