| A | B |
|---|
| artifacts | the tools, pottery, remains of structures |
| archaeologists | Someone who studies artifacts of a culture. |
| culture | the beliefs, traditions, and way of life of a group of people |
| "Paleo"-Indians | "very old" Indians |
| cherts | Mississippian tools made of sedimentary rock used as knives |
| plantations | large farms |
| backcountry | the land away from the coast of the South Carolina colony |
| horticulture | the planting and harvesting of food rather than simply gathering what grows in the wild |
| wattle and daub | brances and mud - Mississppian shelters |
| Mississippian Indians | lasted from about 800 A.D. to 1600 A.D. |
| palisades | sharpen poles or logs stuck into the ground standing up, making a wall |
| nomads | people who move frequently from place to place |
