| A | B |
|---|
| cotton | a plant used to make cloth |
| irrigation | a system of watering crops that uses canals or ditches of water. |
| Kiva | a large underground room used for ceremonies |
| Mesa | a flat-topped height |
| Ritual | the actions that take place during a ceremony |
| villiage | a small settlement |
| burial | the act of burying the dead |
| dwelling | a home |
| religious | relating to a belief in a higher being |
| reservoir | a large place used to store water |
| descendent | one who comes from a group of people |
| kachina | spirits of an ancestor |
| archaeologist | one who studies the remains of past human life |
| beringia | a thousand-mile-wide land bridge that connected Siberia |
| Caribou | large deer that lives in arctic regions |
| culture | the same values, attitudes, and customs of a group |
| Ice Age | a period of time when much of the earth and the earth's water was frozen |
| nomads | people who do not live in one place |
| theory | a best guess |
| clovis point | a finely flaked stone spearhead |
| glacier | a large body of ice |
| architect | a person skilled in designing buildings |
| astronomy | the study of space and the planets |
| civilization | a high level of cultural development |
| cultivate | to grow crops |
| hieroglyphic | a system of writing that uses picture-like symbols |
| mesoamerica | the area of land that includes what is now Mexico and other countries south through Costa Rica |
| settlement | a place or region newly settled |
| artisan | a skilled worker |
| canal | a human-made waterway |
| tobacco | a plant that some people smoke or chew |
| totem pole | a tall, colorful carved object that had a certain religious meaning |
