the preserved remains of a plant or animal from long ago
What is a fossil?
100
following animals for food
What is the reason the first people came to Alabama?
100
These people hunted and gathered their food.
What are hunter-gatherers?
100
The four main new Indian groups in the 1500's
What are the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek?
100
the largest new group of Indians
Who is the Creek?
200
an obejct that was made and used by people long ago
What is an artifact?
200
the prehistoric Indians used these for clothing
What are animal skins?
200
These were used by the Indians in the Mississippian period for burial.
What are mounds?
200
The Spanish explorers brought germs, and the Native Americans had to move.
What is the reason the new groups formed?
200
took care of hunting and building
Who are the Native American men?
300
a scientist who studies the lives of cultures and people from the past
What is an archaeologist?
300
the way Archaic Indians adapted to the warmer climate
What is by building shelters from brush and trees?
300
This is where the people of the Paleo-Indian period took shelter.
What are caves?
300
took care of the house and kids
Who are the Native American women?
300
This is how the Native Americans passed on beliefs and traditions.
What is telling stories?
400
a scientist who learns about the past by studying fossils
What is a paleontologist?
400
These Indians stopped moving from place to place. They began growing crops.
Who are the Woodland period Indians?
400
This period of prehistory was marked by the Indians building houses, growing crops, and settling in one place.
What is the Woodland period?
400
how the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek were governed
What is by a chief and council?
400
where Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek built villages
What is by rivers?
500
the first people to come to Alabama
What are hunter-gatherers?
500
This is how the Mississippian period Indians were different from all the other prehistoric Indians.
What is having a chief?
500
This period of prehistory was marked by bigger animals becoming extinct, the hunting of smaller animals with hooks and spears, and shelters built from brush and trees.
What is the Archaic period?
500
games, music, dance
How did Native Americans celebrate? OR What were some Native American traditions?
500
a celebration Native Americans held every year in the late summer