Early People Lived Here
The Paleo Indians moved from place to place to hunt and gather food. We call them _____________.
What is hunter-gatherers?
The main thing that made life different from the Woodland Indians and the people who came before them (Paleo and Archaic Indians)
What was becoming good farmers and growing most of the food?
The way that people got things that were not available where they lived.
What is trading with other tribes?
The leader of a tribe.
To stretch animal skins to make them lighter.
The tool that helped the Archaic Indians become better hunters.
What is an atlatl?
Name at least two Woodland Tribes in Pennsylvania.
Who were the Erie, Shawnee, Nanticokes, Lenape, Monongahela, Susquehannock, Iroquois?
Painted shells that were strung together to make designs and sometimes used as money.
What was wampum?
a young tree
What was a sapling?
A type of squash that is dried and used for bowls, ornaments, rattles
What is a gourd?
What is the giant animals become extinct as the climate grew warmer?
Paleo - mammoths, mastodons, deer, moose, bison, elk
Archaic - deer, bears, elk, turkeys, smaller mammals
Homes that the Woodland Indians built. Name 2 and explain how they are different.
What are wigwams and longhouses?
The thing that happened when the different tribes or nations did not cooperate.
What is war?
What was a powwow?
A fence of logs made for protection around the village.
What was a palisade?
The types of homes where most Paleo and Archaic Indians lived.
The people in the tribes who selected the men who would lead the tribe.
Who were the women.
(Lenape and Susquehannock)
An example of how people treated nature with respect.
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What is thanking a tree for giving it's life?
What is using every part of the animal?
A scientist who learns about ancient people by studying the things of the past.
Who is an archeologist?
The movement of people or animals from one place to another.
What is migration?
One of the earliest Indian sites in North America that scientists studied to learn about what life in the past was like.
What is Meadowcroft Rock Shelter?
A story that explains how something came to be and answers questions about nature or how the land was created.
What was a legend?
A big change coming to the Woodland way of life that began in the 1500s.
What is sailors, traders, and people came from Europe and took more and more land away?
A large family group.
What is a clan?
To cut into the outer layer of a tree to kill the tree.
What is girdling?