| A | B |
| archaologist | a scientist who studies artifacts from ancient cultures |
| artifact | an item belonging to ancient people and studied by archeologists |
| culture | the ways a group of people expresse and conducts itself |
| anthropologist | a scientist who studies cultures |
| nomad | a person who does not settle in one place but hunts and searches for food |
| confederacy | a large group made up of smaller groups |
| matrilineal | tracing descent through the mother |
| shaman | a person believed to have the power to cure the sick |
| middlemen | dealers or agents acting as go-betweens for the producers of goods and the retailers or consumers |
| adobe | sun-dried earth and straw |
| tepee | a shelter made of tanned hides fastened to a frameworke of poles |