Miscellany
This abundant animal was one of the most important sources of food for the Plains Indians.
What are buffalo?
The lifestyle that early humans relied on for getting food.
What is hunting and gathering?
Tribes in the Northwest built these large pieces of art out of the trunks of fir trees.
What are totem poles?
The continent on which the first hominids appeared.
What is Africa?
These easily transportable tents were used by nomadic Plains Indians.
What are teepees?
The name that Eskimos use to refer to their tribe.
What is Innuit?
The period of time which ended about 10,000 years ago during which a large portion of the Earth was covered in snow and ice.
What was the Ice Age?
A giant mound shaped like this animal was found in Ohio.
What is a snake?
This is the land bridge that once connected Siberia and the Americas.
This style home, built by tribes in the Northeast, could house twenty or more families.
What is a longhouse?
The three crops depended on by early Native American farmers, often called the "Three Sisters."
What are corn, beans, and squash?
These two things are causes that may have led to the extinction of large animals in the Americas.
What are climate change and overhunting?
This effective hunting tool was used by early hunters to throw a sharp spearhead.
What is an atlatl?
Some scientists believe that humans may have crossed the Pacific Ocean from this country to South America.
What is Australia?
Anasazi and other southwestern tribes sometimes carved their homes into this land formation.
What are cliffs?
Fabulous parties thrown by some tribes in the Northwest, where they would give away many of their belongings.
What are potlatches?
An animal that originally evolved in the Americas, migrated to Asia, and was eventually brought back to the Americas by explorers.
What is a horse?
This important invention was used in other parts of the world for thousands of years, but early Americans only ever seemed to use it on toys.
What is the wheel?
A 10,000-year-old object that was found in Folsom, New Mexico, suggesting that humans had hunted in the area.
What is a flint spearhead?
Native Americans in the Eastern US lived in these structures, made out of narrow tree limbs lashed together with vines.
What is a wigwam?
Some native tribes called this body of water the "Father of Waters."
What is the Mississippi?
A technique that scientists rely on to determine how old organic remains are.
What is carbon dating?
Native Americans played games with balls made from this natural material.
What is rubber?
This site in southern Chile dates to 15,000 years ago, suggesting that humans may have been in the Americas much longer than previously thought.
What is Monte Verde?
This city was built around 1000 CE, in the location where St. Louis is today.
What is Cahokia?