1.  Page 74  Digs into the earth to help find artifacts that will tell us something about early inhabitants.

2.  Page 74  Pieces of pottery, weapons, tools, jewelry, or any other items made by people. Artifacts can also include fossils.

3.  Page 74  A type of rock that is formed in successive layers. Shale can incase the body of a bird or prehistoric animal.

4.  Page 74  Scientist that studies the culture of a group. They use artifacts along with cave drawings, well travel pathways and oral history in their studies.

5.  Page 74  A group of people who share common experiences. These experiences include beliefs, traditions, music, and art.

6.  Page 77  The science of cultivating plants and trees

7.  Page 75  The earliest know culture. Most of the tools made by this culture were made of stone. This period of this culture is know as the paleolithic (old stone) age.  Nomadic hunters(roaming)  Invented the atlatl-sling that threw darts for hunting food.

8.  Early archaic indians moved often and followed herds of Indians  Late archaic used more advanced tools like an axe and practiced horticulture and began to live in small villages

9.  Lived in huts, and villages  Hunted with a bow and arrow  Made pottery  Elaborate religious ceremonies

10.  Grew most of their food (maize=corn)  Villages became larger with up to 1000 folks living together  After 1600 the people left the villages and it is a mystery what happened.