ASB 238
archaeology of north america

I am interested in how the first people in North America exploited the natural resources of the Pacific Northwest.

It seems to me they had an amazing abundance of resources without having to expend much energy.I think these people must have had a considerable amount of leisure time simply by the bounty of the wilderness around them. What did they do with this time? Did they spend much time in the telling of stories, playing games, carving, etc. Did the idea of gods evolve from the great abundance of animal life or the natural elements? .

Coastal Adaptations. The implications of living in the resource rich Pacific Northwest are immense. These people not only had the normal forest resources, such as the large and small forest animals and forest vegetation (nuts and seeds etc.) for food, as well as an excellent supply of wood for construction and fuel but benefitted from the easily obtained maritime food resources, including large mammals such as seals and whales as well as fish and mollusks. Sea birds provided eggs and meat. Salmon, which

(Really messed up on my first attempt to write off-line and then transpose into the course discussion area. Was just trying to save money while I work at home.) The following is a continuation of yesterday's thoughts. Salmon, which were abundant and fairly easy to capture, are exceptionally rich in protein and are able to be preserved for long periods of time through drying and smoking ... an excellent, reliable food source. While seals and whales cannot be effectively preserved, when killed they do pro

Dirty ratzafratz...still having trouble trying to get a complete message across to the MCC computer from home. Again it cut off before the complete text was transmitted.I'm not computer illiterate... just computer dislexic... The following,HOPEFULLY, will complete my thoughts While seals and whales cannot be effectively preserved when killed they do provide a good dietary variety with large amounts of protein. Foraging for seed, nuts, fruits and roots in the heavily forested areas would likewise have bee

I would have like to have lived were the seas had tons of food, the red wood trees grew to giantic size, and I had my neighboor at my back door. We forget, the coast was packed with lots of other tribes and lots of other people around to eat that food. It would be nice, however, not to go so far to find food, and to be able to supplement the diet with a wide varity of foods that are found such as meat, fish, roots, nuts, berries and foul, all that were available on the coast.

The Atlantic coast was exploited by hunters and gathers. These people occupied seasonal camps along the shore and inland. Peoples in these areas lived off of land animals, fish, shellfish, plants, nuts, and berries. One factor that the inhabitants of the Atlantic coast would have had to deal with that west coast peoples did not was hurricanes. These storms would have been a continual, and annual barrier to life on the Atlantic coast.

The coastal areas of North America provided Native Americans with abundant and varied food sources. They were able to forage in the coastal woodlands for plant and animal life and were able to obtain fish and mammals from the ocean. The coastal peoples became more specialized and sedentary as a result of coastal living. The abundance of and varities of food seemed to more constant than some people who had to migrate to follow seasonal food sources. These people also learned to exploit the ocean mammals and fish developing new weapons and tactics to hunt seals and other ocean mammals which provided much more than food. It also provided clothing and the blubber of these animals was utilized.

The coastal areas of North America provided Native Americans with abundant and varied food sources. They were able to forage in the coastal woodlands for plant and animal life and were able to obtain fish and mammals from the ocean. The coastal peoples became more specialized and sedentary as a result of coastal living. The abundance of and varities of food seemed to more constant than some people who had to migrate to follow seasonal food sources. These people also learned to exploit the ocean mammals and fish developing new weapons and tactics to hunt seals and other ocean mammals w