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The Prehistory of Ontario - Archaic Period
As the ice retreated north, the climate became more moderate. People spread out across the land, adapting their lives to the gradually changing conditions.....
ontarioarchaeology.on.ca/summary/archai...
Archaic Period
The Archaic Period refers to the time between 9500 and 650 BC in the Native American history
encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia...
NOVA Online - Mystery of the First Americans
NOVA Online presents Mystery of the First Americans...
pbs.org/wgbh/nova/first/
Hunter-Gatherers, Farmers, Gods
An examination of Stone Age humanity reveals that people lived in packs: in extended families, in clans or sometimes a grouping of clans called a tribe. They moved about, scavenging, hunting game and gathering food that grew wild. They had sticks, bone, stones and twine for tools
fsmitha.com/h1/ch00.htm
Dinosaurs, Birds, and Evolution
Around 245 million years ago the first dinosaurs appeared. This was during what geologists call the Triassic Period - the first period of the Mesozoic Era. Dinosaurs were reptiles and they had been preceded for million of years by other reptiles on land..
fsmitha.com/h1/time-birds.html
A Science Odyssey: You Try It: Human Evolution: Fossil
How do we know if an early ape-man or woman walked upright?
pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/evolution/footpr...
During the Ice Age
During the Ice Age of 340,000-330,000 years ago. With maps and fossil records
tony5m17h.net/iceciv.html
Early Woodland Period
Early Woodland Period. Some time around 1000 B.C. the idea of using fired clay to make pottery containers began..
ontarioarchaeology.on.ca/summary/earlyw...
Newgrange Megalithic Tomb - Ireland
Resource site for the Megalithic Passage Tombs of Newgrange, Knowth, Dowth, Fourknocks, Loughcrew and Tara located in the present day County of Meath on the east coast of Ireland.
knowth.com/
A Science Odyssey: You Try It: Human Evolution: Lucy
Discovered in 1974 by Donald Johanson, Lucy is special because she lived so long ago....
pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/evolution/lucy.h...
Woodland Period
The Woodland period is a label used by archaeologists to designate pre-Columbian Native American occupations dating between roughly 600 BC and AD 1000 in eastern North America.
encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia...
Of Mastodons, Mammoths and Other Giants
During the Pleistocene Epoch, from about 1.5 million to 10,000 years ago, the world grew cold.
unmuseum.mus.pa.us/mastodon.htm
Outpost: Human Origins @ nationalgeographic.com
Follow Lee Berger and his team as they hunt for fossils in Botswana and South Africa
nationalgeographic.com/outpost/
The Prehistory - Palaeo-Indian Period
Palaeo-Indians were the earliest prehistoric people in Ontario. Small bands of hunters moved north into Ontario as the land became ice free after the last ice age, about 11,000 years ago........
ontarioarchaeology.on.ca/summary/paleo....
Prehistory of the Mid-South - The Mississippian Period
With the inception of the Mississippian Period, a new way of life..
nps.gov/seac/outline/05-mississippian/i...
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