Hunters and Farmers in the Americas
An ancient land bridge over which the earliest Americans are believed to have migrated from Asia into the Americas ...
Answer: Beringia.
An area extending from central Mexico to Honduras, where several of the ancient complex societies of the Americas developed ...
Answer: Mesoamerica.
A civilization that flourished on what is now the southern coast of Peru from about 200 B.C. to A.D. 600 ...
Answer: Nazca.
A cold period in which huge ice sheets spread outward from the polar regions, the last one of which lasted from about 1,600,000 to 10,000 B.C. ...
Answer: Ice Age.
The earliest known Mesoamerican civilization, which flourished around 1200 B.C. and influenced later societies throughout the region ...
Answer: Olmec.
A civilization that flourished on what is now the northern coast of Peru from A.D. 100 to 700 ...
Answer: Moche.
A cultivated cereal grain that bears its kernels on large ears – usually called corn in the United States ...
Answer: maize.
Pre-Columbian archaeological site in Mexico ...
Answer: Monte Alban.
The first major South American civilization, which flourished in the highlands of what is now Peru from about 900 to 200 B.C. ...
Answer: Chavin.
Pertaining to a North American prehistoric culture, 10,000-9,000 B.C., characterized by a fluted stone projectile point for hunting ...
Answer: Clovis.
An early Mesoamerican civilization that was centered in the Oaxaca Valley of what is now Mexico ...
Answer: Zapotec.
Geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert, Peru ...
Answer: Nazca Lines.
Monte Verde – a Paleolithic archaeological site in S Chile
Answer: Monte Verde.
Archaeological site of the Olmec civilization located in SE Mexico ...
Answer: La Venta.