Plains Village culture
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major reference
- In Native American: Plains Woodland and Plains Village cultures
Archaic peoples dominated the Plains until about the beginning of the Common Era, when ideas and perhaps people from the Eastern Woodland cultures reached the region; some Plains Woodland sites, particularly in eastern Kansas, were clearly part of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere.…
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prehistoric cultures of the Great Plains
- In Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains: Plains life before the horse
These groups, known as Plains Village cultures, grew corn (maize), beans, squash, and sunflowers in the easily tilled land along the river bottoms. Women were responsible for agricultural production and cultivated their crops by using antler rakes, wooden digging sticks, and hoes made from the shoulder blades of elk…
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