VOCABULARY
A scientist who studies fossils and past human objects and materials is called...
Archaeolohgist
Artifacts that Indigenous people left behind help us do this.
Learn about early American cultures or ways of life
Fruit, Vegetables, or Fish: which of the following would have been part of the diets of the Clovis and Folsom people?
Vegetables
Which group of people was centered in the area that is now the states of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico?
Ancestral Pueblo
Mississippians built large platforms shaped like pyramids or ovals.
Mounds
People who lived in these times did not leave written records.
Prehistoric
What would an Archeologist study?
Fossils
Which artifact could have been left behind by the people of the Clovis and Folsom cultures?
Spearhead
What made it possible for the Ancestral Pueblo to speak different languages?
Large numbers of people living in different areas
Mounds were often designed with the these on top.
Temples
This is a way of life.
Culture
Name of the person (job) that studies Earth, its land, features, and people.
Geographer
Both the Clovis and Folsom people moved a lot looking for food.
Nomads (Nomadic)
How did the Ancestral Pueblo have a more stable lifestyle in cliff dwellings than those who came before them?
Understanding the land which allowed them to settle in one place
Mississippians are considered the last ___________ American culture, or the last culture to survive before written records began.
Prehistoric
The movement of people from one place to another.
Migration
What continent(s) would you find the location of Beringia?
Between Asia and North America
Animals the Clovis hunted mostly.
Mammoth and Mastodon
What was the major difference between how the Ancestral Pueblo peoples and the Clovis and Folsom peoples lived?
Ancestral Pueblo people stayed in one place and Clovis and Folsom were nomadic.
What made Mississippian towns have complex social cultures?
Community leaders and religious rituals
People native to a specific region of the world are called this.
Indigenous
The number of years the last ice age ago was.
25,000
List something a bison would be useful for to the Clovis or Folsom people
Food, warmth, or shelter
How was the structure of later Ancestral Pueblo homes helpful in building their communities?
Early homes were partially built in caves. Eventually, they were built from stone and made larger.
What helped Mississippian people build their society? (2 items)
Trade and agriculture