Vocabulary
This helps scientists learn more about an objects age.
What is carbon datin?
Because animals moved to cooler climates, the Basket Makers were forced to do this.
What is finding new ways to feed themselves?
The name Anasazi means this.
What is "Ancient Ones"?
This was a culture of hunters whose name means "People who dwell in the tops of mountains."
Who are the Ute people?
Pueblo means this in Spanish.
What is town?
This is a Spanish word that means town.
What is "Pueblo"?
This bridge allowed people to enter North America.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
Anasazi people were descendants of this culture.
What are "Basket Makers"?
This activity changed the Ute people's lives when they realized horses could be used for this.
What is hunting?
Spanish horses changed Native American lives because of these TWO things.
What are made hunting easier and carried heavier loads?
This allowed Colorado's first people to enter North America.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
This culture followed herds of large animals, built shelters on tops of mesas, and made baskets.
Anasazi communities were made up of these types of homes.
The Ute lived in these, which were made of deer and bison skin and in the shape of a cone.
What is a teepee?
Colorado's people used the land to survive in these TWO main ways.
What are hunted larger animals and gathered food?
This time in history was when North America was covered in glaciers and ice.
What is the Ice Age?
Who are the Folsom people?
The Anasazi owned these pets.
What are dogs?
The Ute called horses these when they first came to Colorado.
What are "mystery dogs"?
This became more important than hunting and farming for the Spanish.
What is trading?
This means an animal is tame.
What is domesticated?
Prehistoric cultures used these TWO methods to replenish their food supply.
What are hunting and gathering?
What is farming?
The Ute captured and ate this animal when first coming to Colorado.
What are horses?
This region in the corner of Colorado is where Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona touch.
What is the Four Corners monument?