American History
...can. (Page 9). With the lost of massive mammoths and other animals, the food supply became less secure during the year round, the herds of American bison turned to be the main target for hunting. (Page10). Therefore, the new Folsom technology was discovered to establish the big game hunting beginning in New Mexico. And in order to save human from the hungry period, “basic preservation techniques” was discovered such as jerky and pemmican. Furthermore, the disappearance of glaciers transformed the climate to be hot and dried up which led to the formation of desert culture (Page 11). While the Indians in the North East of America continued with the big game hunting, the native people in West were forced to hunt and trap small desert animals. What did the Archaic period stand out with before the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? With “hardwoods grew in the North, southern pine in the South.”, “forest efficiency” became achievable in East of Mississippi. Indian communities learned to develop different ways of making living by gathering seeds, nuts, roots, and other wild plant foods, burning to create meadows and edge environments for harvestable food and attracted grazing animals, which were hunted for their meat and hides, and using the resource of fish in the rivers (Page 12). Based on the development of the food sources during the Archaic period, our Indian people were able to establish the new invention of farming mainly in the highlands of Mexico. The advantage of farming indeed improved the social life because “a foraging society might require one hundred square miles to support one hundred people, but a farming society required only one square mile.” (Page 13). However, the growth of population led to the complexity of society then. “Greater population density prompted the development of significantly more elaborate systems of kinship; families began grouping themselves into clans” (Page 13) In addition, the growth of population and the poor crop due to bad climate led to the high demand of food supplies which also increased the contradiction in farming societies....