names of eaely tribes?

Answer 1

If you actually have a quesiton, then you should ask it.

What you typed isn't a question.

Explain what you're asking about, in such a way that people can understand you.

What tribes? Where? When? What about their names?

Answer 2

Google them. I just hate people who cut and paste. Only you know the tribes you're looking for. There's thousands of them, from so many different areas

Answer 3

Tribe names used are "paralogs" (fictitious names that are more word-like than CVC trinomes) and are shown in boldface. Map features are underlined in the text. The first two and final paragraphs are filler text.

Ancient tribes often got their start where two or more systems of nature met one another. An example of this is where an ocean meets a jungle. A place like this was a good spot for tribes to survive because it was easy for them to find a lot of different types of plants and animals. For the early hunters of many lands this variety was ideal because if one type of food became scarce, another was usually around to eat instead.

To make sure there would always be food to eat these early humans sometimes tried farming. This gave tribes more food than they could find growing wild. In other places there were so many plants around to eat that tribes did not bother to grow their own food. In either case, once tribes had a source of food they could count on, they did not have to wander from place to place to find it. Without having to worry about food tribes could start building permanent homes and do other things besides just trying to survive. Tribes finally had time to create art, invent new tools, and develop a written language.

Of all the ancient tribes the Latuk was the largest and may have numbered well over 10,000 persons at its height. The tribe was able to grow in size due to an abundance of food in the area such as the wild berries they collected. Because they lived on the open plains, the natives quickly learned how to grow sunflower seeds and greens like knotweed. This land was also home to large herds of deer that the tribe hunted using bows with arrows that had points made of copper. So much extra food was on hand that the tribe used it to trade with other clans living along the banks of the river.

Springtime often brought floods that forced the Latuk to leave the low lying meadow areas along the riverbanks. Eventually this problem was solved by building a one hundred foot high mound that provided the tribe with a safer home. By removing soil from a nearby pit over a period of 300 years, the tribe built a mound large enough to hold their entire village. In the center of town the tribe built a circle of wooden posts whose shadows were used to warn them when spring was coming. But neither the warnings nor the higher ground were enough to protect the tribe from floods so gradually they left the area.

Like many early tribes throughout the world, the Kupod settled along the coast to harvest the riches of both the forest and the sea. The surrounding cedar trees were a great natural resource and provided the tribe with the lumber they needed to build their canoes. These canoes were huge forty-foot long boats that carried eight men in the rough ocean waters where they hunted for whales. For the shafts of their harpoons, the tribe used wood from the yew tree that was also carved into canoe paddles. Even the fish hooks used to catch the halibut they ate was made of wood from the hemlock tree that was steamed and shaped.

Besides being resourceful hunters, the Kupod were also skilled carpenters who developed an ingenious method of home construction. Their houses used a modular design in which wooden floors and walls could be removed from one frame and put on another. This allowed the tribe to construct several campsites at the base of a tall peak and easily migrate to whatever camp had the best hunting. A large number of the camps were destroyed in a mudslide that buried the area and eliminated much of the tribe’s population. Preserved by the mud, the camp remains tell us their buildings were up to sixty-foot long and housed several families at the same time.

Many tribes living in tropical climates find, as the Tarop did, that Nature provides an abundant supply of different foods. As a result, the tribe never tried to grow food but instead just ate a type of wild potato that grew in the seagrass. Their favorite food, however, was the shellfish caught in a saltwater swamp where several rivers emptied into the sea. We know about their diet by the remains of twenty-foot high mounds formed from the shells the tribe threw away after eating. Besides decorating the walls of their homes with shells, the tribe also used this material to create crude hand axes.

By mixing shells with the sandy soil the Tarop made the marsh solid enough to prevent their huts from sinking. This practice of building the huts on higher ground kept them from being swept away by floods during the hurricane season. The largest of the huts was where hundreds of men and women would gather to dance and sing during ceremonies. Decorating the walls were wooden masks carved with the same type of shell tool the tribe used to build their canoes. Because these pine canoes were were large enough hold forty persons, the tribe was able to trade with distant islands.

It’s a wonder how the Polef tribe was able to maintain a thriving civilization in the high desert wasteland almost a thousand years ago. To survive in the dry climate, they built a complex system of ditches that caught rainwater and directed it to large stone wells. With the stored water the tribe was able to grow an early type of corn called maize that became their main source of food. Because of their limited diet, the tribe suffered from poor nutrition and became vulnerable to intestinal parasites. Getting food and water finally became so difficult that the tribe finally left their land for another part of the country.

During winter months the Polef protected themselves from the freezing cold by living in large buildings that were like apartments. Building were typically planned in the shape of a letter “D” and divided into many rooms using walls made of sandstone covered with mud. Structures for housing were built on the floor of the barren canyon while ones used for storing crops were built underground. Because of the treeless surroundings, the nearest source of lumber for roofs was a grove of pine trees over fifty miles away. The heavy labor of carrying each six hundred-pound log such long distances caused many tribe members to be crippled later in life.

As in many tribal communities, the women of the Gokem tribe were the ones that made decisions about farming such as what to plant. Over time these early farmers became successful at growing several types of beans as well as squash, their main crop. To make planting possible, the tribe first needed to clear the woods, of trees using stone axes and fire. Sometimes they only cleared wide pathways to help hunters by given them an open area to shoot their arrows. Wild blueberries were left to grow on the sides of these paths to attract the deer and provide food if hunting was bad.

The oldest of five united clans, the Gokem tribe lived on an enormous hill formed by an icy glacier thousands of years ago. There, the tribe built several longhouses that were typically over two hundred feet long and shelter about fifty persons. To keep out the winter cold, they wrapped outer logs with bark from the elm tree and kept a campfire lit in the center of the longhouse. Besides providing warmth, this also served a ceremonial purpose and was the spot where tribal meetings were held. It was at such a meeting that five neighboring clans made a peace treaty ending the warfare that almost destroyed their way of life.






Different tribes, each in their own way, made use of the resources nature provided and came up with ideas for solving the challenges they faced. When tribes like the ones mentioned here were successful they survived for centuries and were able to develop a culture. The remains of their efforts can be seen today in the museums and history books. But there are no records of the many other tribes that tried to survive and failed. Their efforts have slipped through the pages of history and into the unknown.