Definitions
Objects produced or shaped by human activity
What are Artifacts
Important stories passed down from generation to generation
What is Oral Histories/Communications/Stories
What is another name for the middle period
What is Hunters and Gathers
Structures made of stones arrayed in a circle
What are medicine wheels
What is the meat on a buffalo used for
What is Eating
Wearing away
What is Erosion
What is the name of the bridge that connected North American to Asian
What is Bering Land Bridge
A very effective throwing stick for killing animals at a distance
What is atlatl
A trail that runs just west of Browning, down through Augusta and the Helena Valley to Three Forks
What is the Old North Trail
What is one use of a buffalo's tail
What is medicine switch, fly brush, whip, lodge decoration
Scientists who study archaeology
What are Archeologist
What climate change occurred about 8,000 years ago that drastically changed the way people lived?
What is The Ice Age
How many glaciers are still left in Montana Today
What is 60
What is the name of the National park in Billings that bore more than 100 pictographs depicting hunting, ceremonial, and social scenes as well as marking locations and events
What is Pictograph Cave
What is one uses of a buffalo's skull
What is ceremonies, sun dance, prayer
A transport device made of two joined poles and drawn by an animal
What is a travois
What is Wooly Mammoth
What animal grew smaller in the middle period
What is Bison
What is it called when people set piles of stones in a large V-shape to create a drive line (a stone formation like a runway) toward the cliff to run buffalo off the edge
What is a Buffalo Jump
What is on use for a buffalo's hooves and feet
What is glue or rattles
A scientific method of determining the age of something that was once alive
What is Carbon-dating
What was the name of the type of arrowhead that was used in the early period
What is Clovis
What was the name of the type of arrowhead that was used in the middle period
What is Bitterroot
What was the name of the type of arrowhead that was used in the late period
What is Avonlea
What is one use of buffalo chips
What is fuel, signals ceremonial smoke