Early Woodland and Adena Complex Outline

 
I.  Subsistence
    1.  Economic activity
        A.  cultivated wild vegetable foods
        B.  became good farmers
        C.  ate maize, gourd, squash, wild sunflowers,
Jerusalem artichoke, sumpweed or marsh elder,
goosefoot, knotweed, maygrass, barley, and tobacco 2. Technology A. became very good pottery makers B. used flint blades, drills, scrapers, stone axes
and adzes, bone tools, atlatl weights,
projectile points 3. Trade A. widespread trading contacts B. Ohio pipestone from the lower Scioto Valley to
Lake Huron and the upper St Lawrence Valley C. copper from Lake Superior D. sea shells from the Gulf Coast E. intensified local and inter-regional trade 4. Impact on the environment A. no information available II. Social Organization 1. How were they organized A. clans and lineages controlled the resources B. social standing was extremely important,
especially for burial 2. Economic classes A. few signs of social distinction between the people B. basically egalitarian III. Population and Settlement Pattern 1. Population size and growth A. villages held as many as 40 people B. had very localized population density 2. Settlement pattern A. Early Woodland settlement distribution resembles
the Late Archaic communities B. Adena lived by basically every major Ohio River
tributary IV. Ideology 1. Religious beliefs and rituals A. burial mounds 1) death was extremely symbolic 2) contained tools, exotic ornaments,
bracelets, rings 3) Adena a) painted corpse with different colors b) Robbins Mound c) Grave Creek Mound 2. Art A. had a great variety sculpted figurines 3. Language A. no information available 4. Warfare A. not much information available