![]() They used polished hand axes, adzes for plowing and tilling the land and started to settle in the plains. They domesticated animals and cultivated cereal grains. to 3,000 B.C.), ancient humans switched from hunter/gatherer mode to agriculture and food production. Agriculture was introduced during this time, which led to more permanent settlements in villages.įinally, during the Neolithic period (roughly 8,000 B.C. They often lived nomadically in camps near rivers and other bodies of water. to 8,000 B.C.), humans used small stone tools, now also polished and sometimes crafted with points and attached to antlers, bone or wood to serve as spears and arrows. They get their name from the distinctive mounds (middens) of shells and other kitchen debris they left behind.ĭuring the Mesolithic period (about 10,000 B.C. ![]() ![]() The Shell Mound People, or Kitchen-Middeners, were hunter-gatherers of the late Mesolithic and early Neolithic period. ![]()
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