The Archaic period in the Americas saw a changing environment featuring a warmer more arid climate and the disappearance of the last megafauna. The majority of population groups at this time were still highly mobile hunter-gatherers; but now individual groups started to focus on resources available to them locally, thus with the passage of time there is a pattern of increasing regional generalization like, the Southwest, Arctic, Poverty, Dalton and Plano traditions. This regional adaptations would become the norm, with reliance less on hunting and gathering, with a more mixed economy of small game, fish, seasonally wild vegetables and harvested plant foods. COUNT 5
QSN1 What kind of climate occurred in the Americas? ANS1 warmer more arid QSN2 What disappeared during the Archaic period? ANS2 megafauna QSN3 What became the norm for the mobile bands? ANS3 regional adaptations QSN4 What did they rely less and less on? ANS4 hunting and gathering QSN5 What was there a pattern of in this period? ANS5 increasing regional generalization