USI.3 Vocabulary

Pueblo spirit dolls that are carved from cottonwood trees and used to teach youngsters lessons about right and wrong, faith, and the great gifts of nature kachinas

Clay bricks that have baked rock-hard in the sun and are used for building adobe

The recovery of physical artifacts such as bones, tools, and pottery from the past archeology

People who work to make goods and provide services human resources

a handmade object, as a tool, or the remains of one, as a shard of pottery, characteristic of an earlier time or cultural stage, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation. artifact

Things from nature that are used or grown by man to survive and make life better natural resources

Special round rooms that the Pueblo used for ceremonies Special round rooms that the Pueblo used for ceremonies. Here they quietly lifted up their voices in prayer, grateful for the bounty of their lives kivas

A building that served as a church and a school where priests taught the American Indians about Christianity and European ways of doing things mission

Goods produced and used to help make other goods and provide services capital resources

Scientists who study human behavior and culture through the recovery and study of artifacts archeologists