1. Did North American Native Americans have access to metals before the Europeans arrived? What did they use for tools? Did they have domesticated animals?
Domesticated plants? |
I

Some tribes were able to solder and anneal metals, and a few tribes in Latin America worked with platinum. But no steel use among the tribes before Europeans. Native American Tools were made of stone, primarily Flint, the process was called Flint Knapping and the weapon and tool makers were Flint Knappers. The tools were used to make weapons for fighting and hunting including Axes, Arrows, Spear, Knives, Tomahawks.Many native American tribes had dogs as pets, hunting companions, and beasts of burden. Several of the plains tribes used them to drag small sleds that carried supplies, and the arctic/northern native tribes have had dog sleds for thousands of years. In South America they had lamas and alpacas.By about 1800 BCE the Native Americans of North America were cultivating several species of plants, thus transitioning from a hunter-gatherer economy to agriculture. ... The initial four plants known to have been domesticated were goosefoot

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