| A | B |
|---|
| Paleo-Indians | the first group of prehistoric Indians |
| nomads | wanderers |
| migration | movement of humans or animals from one place to another. |
| Mississippian Indians | most advanced Indians that had a chiefdom. |
| wattle and daub | combination of wood and clay used by the Mississippian Indians to build homes. |
| effigy | an image of a person or animal. |
| palisade | a wall of tall posts built for protection. |
| Rock Eagle | a Woodland effigy mound |
| Etowah Mounds | built during the Mississippian period. |
| Ocmulgee Mounds | Mississippian period mounds built near Macon, GA. |
| moat | a wide ditch around a village palisade used to protect against attack. |
| Prehistory | time before written records were kept |
| 1540 | the year prehistory ended in GA |
| Hernando DeSoto | Spanish explorer of GA |
| Berengia | land mass between Alaska dn Siberia |
| Clovis point | Paleo hunting tool |
| midden | Archaic piles of shells |
| Asia | where the first humans to N. America came from |
| Woodland | invented bow and arrow |
| Archaic | developed clay pottery |
