Vocabulary
This is someone who study ancient peoples and artifacts.
Who are archaeologists?
This is the state where Clovis artifacts were first found.
Where is New Mexico?
This marked the beginning of the NEW Stone age.
What was widespread use of polished rock tools?
These were the first crops people grew.
What are grains?
These are what archaeologists use to learn about prehistoric cultures.
What are artifacts?
This is an object from an ancient civilization that is found by an archaeologist.
What is an artifact?
This is what many scholars believed the Clovis people were.
Who are the first Americans?
This means to make tame.
What is domestication?
These were the first domesticated animals.
What are sheep?
These are the materials/supplies a community has available.
What are resources?
This is a huge sheet of ice covering a stretch of land.
What is a glacier?
This is where artifacts were found that made scholars believe they may have been wrong about the Clovis people.
Where are Monte Verde, Chile or South Carolina?
This is the time when tools were made of stone, not metal.
What is the Stone Age?
What is agriculture?
This is the average weather an area has over a long period of time.
What is climate?
This means to move from one area to another.
What is migrate?
This is the name of the land bridge people used to migrate from Asia to the Americas.
What is Beringia?
This is what surplus food lead to during the Stone Age.
What are social divisions?
This is what people had as a result of farming.
What is extra food?
These are what desert cultures used to make twine, baskets, and sandals.
What are plant stems and fibers?
This is the long period of time before people developed systems of writing and written language.
What is prehistory?
This is the reason people migrated to the Americas.
What is hunting?
This is how much progress was made during the Old Stone Age.
What is very little?
This is what the first farm tools were made out of.
What is stone?
These are what different cultures in the Americas relied on for development.
What are available resources?