| A | B |
|---|
| Paleo | First native group to cross the Bering Strait into North America and Georgia |
| atlatl | a spear thrower developed by the Paleo |
| Woodland | First to use the bow and arrow |
| Mississippian | Temple Mound Builders |
| Archaeologist | A scientist who studies artifacts from the past |
| Anthropologist | A scientist who studies humans through their culture |
| Antiquities | Important items left behind by humans |
| Artifacts | items studied by an Archaeologist |
| clan | group of people related by blood |
| horticulture | science of growing plants |
| nomadic | moving from place to place |
| palisades | fences made from sharpened poles that surround a village for defense |
| moat | a deep ditch filled with water that surrounds a village for defense |
| culture | characteristics of a group of people |
| Agriculture | science of farming plants and animals |
| prehistoric | before written history |
| Archaic | First to use clay for pottery |
| Archaic | first to use horticulture |
| Archaic | Lived between 8,000 B.C. to 1,000 B.C. |
| Paleo | Created atlatl |
| Woodland | lived in 1,000 B.C. to 1,000 A.D. |
| Woodland | first to build mounds for burying their dead |
| Archaic | first to bury their dead |
| Mississippian | Lived 1,000 A.D. to 1,600 A.D. |
| Mississippian | Had priests as chiefs |
| Paleo | Strictly nomadic |
| Mississippian | Wattle and Daub houses |
| Woodland | improved pottery and horticulture |
| Woodland | Lived in dome shaped huts |
| Clovis | Spear points the Paleo used |
