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During this period. Many indigenous peoples began to adopt agriculture, sedentary lifestyles, and permanent settlements. It lead to significant changes in social structures and culture. The Neolithic period in North America also saw the rise of complex societies like the Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian cultures, who built large ceremonial mounds and traded across long distances.





No wonder everyone wanted a woolly mammoth;
New Mexico white sands fossilized footprints – 21,000-23,000 years ago;
North American scimitar – homotherium serum
Giant short faced bear: arctodus simus
Giant beaver (castoroides ohioensis);
Neolithic tar sands, Rancho La Brae;
Kimmswick Bone Bed, Jefferson County Missouri;
Neolithic Site: El Fin del Mundo (‘End of the Earth), Sonora, Mexico
Saltville, Smyth County, Virginia;
Meadowcroft rockshelter or sand stone re-entrant;