A distinctive Clovis tool that may have been used by early Americans to hunt megafauna.
What is a Clovis point (or fluted point)
100
The US state where Kennewick Man was discovered during a boat race.
What is Washington
100
The UM Museum of Natural History has two of these megafauna on display.
What are Mastodons
100
European colonizers didn't think this group of people didn't build large mounds, because many mound sites were abandoned when they arrived.
What are Native Americans
100
A system of knowing (epistemology) that tests claims against evidence and replicates its methods.
What is the Scientific Method
200
The ancient European culture that Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley believe the ancestors of the Clovis culture descended from.
What is Solutrean
200
Categories of human variation, though anthropologists and geneticists determined they have little biological basis.
What are Races
200
A tool designed to add distance and power to a projectile, perhaps contributing to human hunting prowess and the "over-kill" hypothesis.
What is an atlatl
200
The largest mound in North America.
What is Monk's Mound
200
The first step of the scientific method.
What is Ask a Question (or Make an Observation)
300
An archaeological site in New Mexico where a projectile point was discovered lodged in an extinct bison, causing archaeologists to reconsider how long people had been in North America.
What is Folsom
300
The race of Kennewick Man as determined by the first forensic investigation.
What is Caucasoid
300
An extinction hypothesis that suggests megafauna died off due to their inability to adapt to the environment.
What is climate change (or "over-chill")
300
Archaeologists think that this feature connected the Newark Earthworks with the area near the High Banks site.
What is an ancient road
300
Homology and convergence are two concepts for explaining similarities in this.
What is Form
400
An archaeological site in South America that predates many of the Clovis sites in North America.
What is Monte Verde
400
A group that wanted access to Kennewick Man's remains, alongside scientists and Native American tribes.
What is Asatru
400
An extinction hypothesis that may find a modern analogy in H1N1.
What is hyper-disease (or "over-ill")
400
Features inside of mounds that Cyrus Thomas used to conclude that the ancestors of Native Americans had built them.
What are Stone Casket Burials
400
Being one of these means you test the validity of a claim before accepting or rejecting it.
What is a Skeptic
500
A possible migration route into North America, at least for terrestrial hunters living 13,500 years ago.
What is the Ice-free Corridor
500
Part of the skeleton compared to modern racial averages that initially determined Kennewick Man's race.
What is the skull
500
Two substances of possible extra-terrestrial origin that are found in high concentrations in "black mat" stratigraphic layers, the possible result of the "over-grill" hypothesis.
What are nanodiamonds and iridium
500
Astronomical observations that the Newark and High Banks earthworks are aligned to.
What is the rising and setting of the moon
500
A procedure for finding out when the last time an artifact containing crystalline minerals (such as a clay tablet or soil) was exposed to high heats.