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Life, Trade and Technology in the Southeast before Columbus)
Exploring North Carolina will introduce viewers to the people living in North Carolina from the end of the last Ice Age (approximately 10,000 years ago) to the arrival of the first Europeans. We will visit several locations, including Barber Creek near Greenville, the Warren Wilson Site near Asheville, and the Hardaway Site near Albemarle. ENC will examine technological and social change.
Viewers will be able to explore the "natural grocery store" and pharmacy available to American Indians. Viewers will see early art in the form of petroglyphs, learn about early agricultural practices and see giant cypress canoes (some 4,600 years old) (from Phelps Lake in eastern North Carolina). We will examine the evolution of pottery in the Archaic and Woodland Periods).
It is probably safe to say that students in American classrooms know more about the ancient peoples from other continents than about the complex societies that evolved in North America. The evidence of early man in Virginia and the Carolinas is abundant and convincing. In this series ENC will help unlock the secrets of America's first human inhabitants with the help of scientists from many disciplines, including archeology, paleontology, and climatology. |
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