This gave people access to materials from places beyond where they lived. People also can get new ideas and knowledge from others. An important advancement was the development of the bow and arrows about 800 years ago. By the end of this period some tribes were living in village settlements. Archaeologists have found large sites, like one in Rockbridge County.
People still enjoy cooking traditional Indian foods .
Food was abundant, especially in the tidal wetlands areas which had many fish and shell beds of oysters and other marine life. Some tribes began to build burial mounds in which to place the bodies of people who had died. Stone burial mounds have been found from the South Fork of the Shenandoah River into West Virginia . Thomas Jefferson opened a burial mound which was on his land near Charlottesville. The Ohio Valley at Moundsville, West Virginia, has important burial mounds.