Neolithic - North America
A family-sized Indigenous camp occupies a low terrace beside a broad river in the Eastern Woodlands during the Middle Archaic period, about 5000–4000 BC. Around a central hearth, adults and children dry fish, crack nuts, and tend baskets and tools, while bark- and mat-covered oval shelters and a resting dog suggest a temporary seasonal base used for fishing and gathering. The scene reflects a mobile hunter-fisher-forager lifeway typical of northeastern North America before pottery and agriculture became established.