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Lifestyle
What period is this?
Tools
100
Something that no longer exisits
What is extinction?
100
Very old, ancient.
What is Paleo?
100
The most feared of the tribes in Arkansas
What is Osage?
100
Archaic
What is the time period where the land became like we see today?
100
Used to store foods in for the winter
What is pottery?
200
Art work painted on rock walls
What are pictographs?
200
Looked like human heads or animals
What are effigy pots?
200
This can be made by boiling spring water until it evaporates.
What is salt?
200
No waste of plants or animals
What is Archaic Indians
200
The first type of arrowheads we know about from the Paleo period?
What is clovis point?
300
Art worked carved into cave walls
What are petroglyphs?
300
study of people/societies who lived long ago
What is archaeology?
300
These Indians were the best at growing crops.
What is the Mississippian period?
300
The Indians in this period developed the bow and arrow.
What is the Woodland period?
300
tool used by Archaic Indians to throw spears further and faster
What is the atlatl?
400
Religious belief that everything has a spirit
What is animism?
400
wandered hundreds of miles in search of food
What are nomads?
400
Harvested salt for trade
What is Mississippian?
400
Ice age like climate
What is Paleo period?
400
chisel like stone tool used to shape wooden bowls and wooden shelters
What is the adz?
500
important clues left behind by other cultures such as man-made items, spear tips, arrow points, pottery, baskets
What are artifacts?
500
important ceremonies performed to celebrate specific events or as part of a religious practice
What are rituals?
500
Responsibilities of Caddo chief
watch over group, approve marriages, conduct important ceremonies, greet visitors, call on leaders to make important decisions
500
lived in villages and built mounds
What is Woodland Indians?
500
Fire
What is the tool Archaic Indians used to help them make their dugouts?