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Innovative Hunter Gatherers
 When the Ice Age ended, the Americas gradually changed. Climates warmed and environments became more like today. Mammoths, sloths, and other large animals went extinct. Ice Age Americans who had depended upon these giant mammals as a substantial part of their diet began to look for other options.
People moved into new parts of the continents in search of food and other resources. As they traveled, they encountered vastly different environments along the way. Faced with changing resources, these hunter-gatherers adapted to new situations by innovating and experimenting with new technologies.
This kind of creative problem-solving in diverse locations led to a wide variety of cultures throughout the Americas. The hunter-gatherer lifestyle expanded as people transformed traditional tools and techniques to meet new challenges. Some societies even experimented with farming: domesticating plants and animals.
To learn more about these early innovators, select from the following:
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Overview
Get the full story on the hunting and gathering lifestyle and discover how these ingenious people came up with clever ways to get more resources from the landscape.
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Featured Cultures
Meet four unique hunter-gatherer societies from California, Peru, the eastern United States, and Mexico and find out how they settled down and experimented over time.
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Image Gallery
View an amazing array of hunter-gather objects—from spear points and scrapers to pipes and jewelry—and see some of the earliest agricultural artifacts. |
Continue to the Overview. >>
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