Question

1.What kinds of tools and material would Native Americans have used at Scull Shoals that did not last long enough for archaeologists to find?

2.Archaeologists at Scull Shoals were looking for evidence of a palisade but did not find any. What is a palisade and why would Native Americans have had one?

3.Based on this eyewitness account of DeSoto’s expedition, what are some of the foods that the Native Americans ate at this time?

4.How did the Native Americans cook their meat, according to the author of the diary?

5.Did the Spanish eat the foods that Native Americans ate? What is your evidence in the text?

Answer 1

1. Every tool that could decompose, for example tools made out of wood, or natural resources, axes made out of a stick and a sharpened piece of rock, or spears.

2. A palisade is a wall build out of long sticks that helped protect villages, they would have had one to protect the village.

3.Corns, beans and squash, often called the three sisters, they acquired most of their diet thru agriculture.

4. Usually roasted or boiled their foods.

5.Eventually with the hunger they started to adopt the same diet as the native americans.