archaic period
The archaic period was the earliest of the 4 and goes back from 10000 to 3000 years ago. At the situation that they were here most of the land was covered with oak hickory hardware forest. The first archaic people were hunters or gathers in search of food. By 10,000 years ago, the climate had heated up, and the vegetation was gradually changing. The open forest of the Ice Age was being regained by a denser spruce-pine forest similar to forests found in Canada today. The Archaic Period is seperated into three sub-periods based on changes in the types of tools and other artifacts that they used.