Archaic Period (8,000-800 B.C.)

The Archaic people were also hunter-gatherers but more sedentary, with increasing populations and more permanent settlements. The Archaic people also made stone tools, including spear points, knives, scraping tools, and groundstone tools like axes, celts, adzes, and grinding stones. Their ceremonial sites were more elaborate and they buried their dead in gravel hills. In Ohio, Late Archaic cultures were also the first to produce pottery and grow crops in small gardens.