Woodland
2,500 to 800 years ago
You would recognize the climate of Woodland Oshkosh - it was like today. Native people began settling in more sedentary villages. By the Late Woodland period, they planted corn, beans, squash, tobacco and sunflowers.
The Woodland period spans only 1,700 years compared to the nearly 11,000 years of the Paleoindian and Archaic periods. In this short time span prehistoric life changed more dramatically than ever before. Influenced by long-distance social networks Woodland people became more sedentary, they became farmers, created earthen mounds for burial and ceremonial reasons and adopted new technologies like pottery and the bow and arrow.
