Apple QuickTime movie | 1997-10-14 | 2.4 MB | 550x370 | 10fps | 1 minute, 22 seconds
Transcription: The heavily wooded American East was inhabited by many hunter-gatherer and fishing communities. Rivers and lakes were rich in wild foods and were therefore favoured locations where after 2000 BC some useful plants such as seed-bearing grasses were also cultivated by increasingly sedentary groups. Earlier trade networks which had brought utilitarian and luxury raw materials over long distances were intensified. Demonstration of community land ownership was also increasingly important. The Adina group achieved this by building mounds in prominent positions on ridges. The later Hopewell groups ca ...
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