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| 1 | The area you see was first inhabited by Paleo-Indian cultures dating back about 12,000 years. | Close-up of student-drawn map of NE Iowa and SW Wisconsin. |
| 2 | These cultures consisted of small, very mobile hunters and gatherers who specialized in hunting the now-extinct "mega-fauna" such as the wooly mammoth and mastodon. | Close-up of student-drawn illustration of woolly mammoth or mastodon being hunted. |
| 3 | As the coniferous forests changed to deciduous forests, and increase in plant food sources coincided with the beginning of the Archaic people. | Close-up of student-drawn time line of Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, and Oneota cultures. |