| A | B |
|---|
| palisades | wooden fences made with stakes |
| artifacts | objects made by humans; tools, weapons, pottery |
| middens | great mounds/piles of shells discarded by Archaic Indians |
| atlatl | spear throwing device |
| nomads | people that travel or wander |
| Ecofact | natural object in nature; bones, shells, teeth |
| archaeologists | scientists that study artifacts to learn about people in the past |
| Ice Age | geologic time period when cold temperatures formed great glaciers and polar ice |
| "ancient" | paleo |
| moat | wide ditch, sometimes filled with water |
| horticulture | science of cultivating plants and trees |
| clovis points | wooden spears used in the paleo period |
| Mississippian Indians | serious farmers and mound builders |
| Paleo indians | large game hunters, and also nomadic |
| seasonally nomadic, and small game hunters | Archaic Indians |
| Woodland Indians | first developed agriculture |
| Archaic Indians | mastered the atlatl, had oldest pottery found here inside middens |
| used the bow and arrow | Woodland Indians |
| wattle and daub | Missiappian Indian way of making houses with wood and clay |
| agriculture | planting seeds to raise crops |
| cheifdom | social and political structure used in Missippian Indian tribes |
| aquifer | natural underground water storage tank |
| developed crop rotation and community stores for food | Mississippian Indians |
| Ocmulgee and Etowah mounds | sites where evidence of Mississippian Indians were found |
| Stallings Island | site where evidence of Archaic Indians were found |
