Online Activities: Iroquoian Longhouse
Where were the corn fields?
Around the village, on the plateau and in the flood plain of the river, the Iroquoians planted their fields of corn. Corn, or maize, was grown in small mounds of earth, called corn hills. A corn field would have hundreds and even thousands of hills, in which corn was planted together with beans and squash. The corn, beans and squash were harvested in the fall, and stored in the houses to provide food for the winter.
Explore the Village
- What is a longhouse?
- Why were villages built on plateaus?
- What is a palisade?
- How are sites found by archaeologists?
- Where were the corn fields?
- Why were villages built near water?
Domesticated corn.
