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A huge sheet of ice covering a great stretch of land.
What is a glacier?
A person who travels from place to place.
Who are nomads?
A long period of time before people developed systems of writing and written language.
What is prehistory?
The study of the relationship between physical features, climate, and people.
What is geography?
When people gather crops that are ready to be eaten or stored.
What is harvest?
During this “age,” the people of Clovis used hand-made tools.
What is the Ice Age?
During this “age,” people used pebble or stone tools.
What is the Stone Age?
Surplus food led to this during the Stone Age.
What are social divisions within the community?
This marked the beginning of the New Stone Age.
What is the widespread use of polished rock and tools?
The technology, customs, beliefs, and art of a group of people.
What is culture?
An object made by people long ago.
What is an artifact?
To tame wild animals or plants.
What is domestication?
To move from one area to another.
What is migrate?
The study of the ways of past cultures through objects they left behind.
What is archeology?
Compare how we domesticate animals today with how people did it in the Stone Age.
What is ?
These professionals are dedicated to the study of ancient people and artifacts.
Who are archeologists?
This is how archeologists draw conclusions about prehistoric people.
What is by analyzing artifacts?
For many years scholars believed these people were the first Americans.
Who were the Clovis people?
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These animals were the ones that were first domesticated.
What are sheep and goats?
What were the ones who met the people's needs?
This was a result of plant and animal domestication by people.
What is people had more food?
Of the following, this does not contribute to a culture's development: resources, landforms, climate, or fire.
What is fire?
One of the following is not considered a part of culture: technology, archeology, customs, or beliefs.
What is archeology?
The Clovis people are important to archeologists for this reason.
What is because they were among the earliest Americans and many theories are based on their artifacts?
This event happened first: people left artifacts in Clovis, New Mexico; Beringia formed; Ice Age ends; migration to North America.
What is Beringia formed?
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Desert cultures using plant stems and fibers to make twine, baskets, and sandals is an example of this.
What is how landforms and climate affect culture?
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The fact that animal life was the subject of many paintings and the availability of different colored stones allowed for painting in color is an example of this.
What is how the availability of resources affected cave paintings?