The archaic stage was the second stage of cultural development in the Americas. The archaic stage is when most cultures began living more settled lives in contrast to continual migrating in search of food. They began improving their tools and used baskets for food gathering and storage. The beginning stages of agriculture come at this stage.
The period of time it took one culture to progress into this stage of cultural evolution varied from one group to another. Each culture's needs and availability to stable resources varied from one location to another.
This stage of development took place for most cultures in the Americas anywhere from around 8000 BC to 2000 BC. Cultures that relied on fish and other stable local food sources were …show more content…
The Watson Blake site is nearly 2,000 years older than the site at Poverty Point, which is also located in Northern Louisiana. There are more than 100 regional sites associating with the Poverty Point culture of the Late Archaic period. These cultures regularly interacted with each other and had a regional trading network that connected to other cultures across the Southeast of North America.
Across the region of the Southeastern part of North America about 6,000 years ago, cultures were exploiting wetland resources and left behind large shell middens. These shell middens contained debris of human activity. Some of the shell middens discovered were processing areas where aquatic resources were processed directly after being harvested for use or stored in a distant location. Some shell middens were village dump sites. A treasure trove for archaeologists that get to collect information by items left behind or discarded by early archaic
The period of time it took one culture to progress into this stage of cultural evolution varied from one group to another. Each culture's needs and availability to stable resources varied from one location to another.
This stage of development took place for most cultures in the Americas anywhere from around 8000 BC to 2000 BC. Cultures that relied on fish and other stable local food sources were …show more content…
The Watson Blake site is nearly 2,000 years older than the site at Poverty Point, which is also located in Northern Louisiana. There are more than 100 regional sites associating with the Poverty Point culture of the Late Archaic period. These cultures regularly interacted with each other and had a regional trading network that connected to other cultures across the Southeast of North America.
Across the region of the Southeastern part of North America about 6,000 years ago, cultures were exploiting wetland resources and left behind large shell middens. These shell middens contained debris of human activity. Some of the shell middens discovered were processing areas where aquatic resources were processed directly after being harvested for use or stored in a distant location. Some shell middens were village dump sites. A treasure trove for archaeologists that get to collect information by items left behind or discarded by early archaic