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Georgia History: Overview
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largest state east of the mississippi -youngest and
southernmost of the 13 colonies -by 1860 most popular southern state
Paleoindian Period
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Georgia begins well before the founding of the colony, with
Native American cultures dating back to this period.
- End of the ice age, nearly 13,000.
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Clovis Culture
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earliest documented group to have lived in present-day Georgia.
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- identified by its unique projectile points
Permanent settlements of the Late Archaic Period
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Stallings Island in the
Savannah River, dating back to 3000 B. C.
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Woodland Period
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Native American groups beame increasingly sedentary,
establishing villiages, horticulture, rock mounds, and structures built during
this ear found
throughout the state. (Including Kolomoki mounds in Early county).
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Missisipian Period
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A. D. 800-1600
- for 8 centuries, comples native cultures, organized as CHEIFDOMS,
emerged and developed
lifewauys in response to the particular features of their physical
surroundings.
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, Georgia Geography and Geology
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Encompasses the BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS,
and 2 coastal plains ( atlantic and the gulf of mexico).... these drove a variety
of native people
to the region-- leading to diverse indian cultures.
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Pottery in Georgia
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diversity in pottery testifies to the diversity in native
americans
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Mississipian Period defense
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defensive structures were built, including Etowah,
Ocmulgee, nacooche.
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Eurpoean explorers and Missipian cultures
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as European expolreres and settlers
came to georgia, missipian cultures began to decline and remnants of
various cheifdoms