Potpourri
It's a shared system of behaviors, attitudes, and understandings
What is culture?
important stories people pass down through generations
What are oral histories?
The scientific study of human cultures by analyzing physical clues people have left behind
Big game hunters used spears to hunt Ice Age mammals 14,000 to 8,000 years ago; climate shifts several times between warm and cool
What is the Early Period?
It's the oldest human migration trail in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Old North Trail?
These sets of logically connected ideas change as new evidence is discovered
What are theories?
traditional stories that tell about the creation of something
What are creation stories
These objects are produced or shaped by human activity
What are artifacts?
People hunt with the atlatl and a Bitterroot point during this time as Hunter-Gatherers.
What is the Middle Period?
It's a pile of stones used as a marker
What is a cairn?
This swampy bog is too wet to grow many kinds of plants.
What is a muskeg?
A Papago story that teaches the beginning of a silent, colorful insect
What is "Butterflies"?
Who are Archaeologists?
The "Dog Days" saw bow-and-arrow hunters focusing on bison during this time 1,500 to 300 years ago.
What is the Late Period?
These intriguing structures are made of stones arrayed in some type of circular formation
What are medicine wheels?
This sediment was left behind by glaciers.
What is glacial till?
A Cherokee story that teaches about anger and forgiveness
What is "The First Strawberry"?
A scientific method of determining the age of something that was once alive
What is carbon-dating?
Plains turn to grassland and Ice Age animals adapt or die during this time 8,000 to 1,500 years ago.
What is the Middle Period?
These painted images on rocks may show animals, humans, tally marks or other figures.
What are pictographs?
These ceremonial practices may include items such as pipes, plants, bones or stones.
What are rituals?
A Salish story that teaches the geographical formations, skills and other knowledge for people to use.
What is "The Creator Makes the World"?
A scientific method used to determine the age of volcanic glass artifacts or lava flows
What is obsidian hydration dating?
From 300-200 years ago, the coming of Europeans changed everything in North America during this time.
What is the Protohistoric Period?
This National Historic Landmark was found to have more than 30,000 artifacts, over 100 pictographs, and the graves of 9 young people
What is Pictograph Cave?