在北美有阿塔巴斯干人、阿尔贡金人、易洛魁人、苏人和马斯科基人等;在中美有阿兹特克人、玛雅人、加勒比人、奇布查人等;南美有印加人、瓜拉尼人和阿拉乌干人等。语言属印第安语族。最先种植玉米、马铃薯、向日葵、棉花、金鸡纳树等作物,对人类作出贡献。16世纪前,多半尚处于母系氏族阶段,也有少数象玛...
A few archaeologists think that hunting and gathering were so embedded that some desert bands may have continued the basic late Archaic lifestyle until well into EuroAmerican times. These would have included groups similar to the Great Basin Shoshoni, a historic tribe whose small extended family ba...
building and plastering the roofs. We see them flaking stone to make projectile points and tools; fashioning spears and atlatls and, later, bows and arrows; grinding stream cobbles to make ax heads. We can envision them training their sons in the use of the weapons, the language...
The word bolo tie is assumed to have come from the word boleadoras or bolas. Bolas are the hunting weapons crafted by Southern Americans that use are constructed of rope or cord with a ball attached to each end. When you look atÂbolo ties, you can see where the silver tips could hav...
Native American Weapons:Bow and Arrow The Bow and Arrows were the most common types of weapons used by Native Americans. Different types and sizes were designed for hunting and for fighting. Bows for horse back riders were smaller than those used on foot. The Bow and Arrow provided a long...
hole; The Chief observed that perhaps they would be oppressed and could not afterwards make war again. The Priest then told him that if any wrong were done them, they might take their arms again. Then the Indians flung down instantly their weapons, which were soon covered with the earth....
The reintroduction of the horse by the Europeans had an incredible impact on the American Indians. They learned to use horses for travel, hunting, and warfare. There were several very famous Native Americans: Pocahontas (1595-1617) – She was made famous by the Disney film about her ...
the US. This project was also inspired by the Travel Channel series Mountain Monsters. The show itself furthered my interest in cryptozoological creatures, as well as giving some information about the creature they were hunting in accordance to the respective Native American tribes within the ...
Bison for centuries set rhythms of life for the Lakota and other nomadic tribes. Hides for clothing and teepees, bones for tools and weapons, horns for ladles, hair for rope — a steady supply of bison was fundamental. At so-called “buffalo jumps.” herds would be run off cliffs, then...
lodges which were proportionally longer than (but otherwise similar to) those of earlier periods. They accelerated construction of ball courts, evidence of their rising interest in the sacred games. They relied more on farming, introducing new crops such as amaranth, and less on hunting and ...