| A | B |
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| Prehistory | used to refer to the period before people kept written records |
| Artifact | a piece of stone, bone, pottery, or tool left behind by ancient people |
| Anthropologists | a scientist who studies the origin and development of man |
| Archaelogists | a scientist who searches for and studies objects left behind by ancient peoples |
| Migrate | to leave one place to settle in another |
| nomad | a wanderer |
| culture | the way of life of a group of people: includes their beliefs, social forms, customs and practices |
| Projectile Point | a sharpended stone that the prehistoric Indians attached to a spear or an arrow and used for hunting |
| ritual | a series of actions performed in a religious or other ceremony |
| palisade | a fence of pointed stakes that was 12 to 20 feet high |
| hieroglyphics | pictures or symbols used to represent sounds, words, or idas |
| immunity | natural resistance to disease |
| hominy | a mixture of corn, water, and lye that was baked and then eaten |
| wigwam | a type of circular house used by American Indians; erected by hearing and bending poles toward a center point, tying the poles together, and then covering the fram with cedar, cypress or pine bark |
