Engineers

Just like people everywhere, and over the course of thousands of years, native people in the Northeast were engineers, creating practices and tools to make their lives easier and more comfortable. Using the natural resources available to them (bone, antler, stone, wood, etc.), they crafted woodworking, farming, and hunting tools. The archaeological evidence they left behind, objects such as arrowheads and stone tools, give us clues as to what they ate and how they lived.

An archaeologist studies how people in the past lived. Often, a rich source of evidence is the trash people throw away. Archaeologists sometimes dig for evidence of how people lived and find it in everyday objects, symbolic expression (art), evidence of what was eaten, and what technology they invented. Archaeologists ask questions and look for answers in landscapes, structures, and objects.