Week 4 Vocabulary Practice

What does paleo mean?

• ancient/old

• a diet

• white

• new

What is a paleoamerican?

• the first people to eat meat

• the first people to live in North America

• the first people live in Africa

• the first white people

What is flintknapping?

• carefully digging up an area to uncover artifacts

• putting your rock down for a nap

• the shaping of flint into sharp points

• the shaping of flint into rock shelters

If a person is resourceful, they ____________________.

• find ways to do jobs using space junk

• find ways to jobs using materials available to them

• use up natural resources

• walk on water

What do you call the long period of time in ancient history when ice covered large portions of the Earth?

• Ancient Ice

• Ice Time

• Stone Age

• Ice Age

The ___________________ is the name of a rock shelter by the Brazos River in Texas where an ancient burial site was found.

• Bison Shelter

• Hoof Shelter

• Horn Shelter

• Horn Cave

To ___________ is to carefully dig up an area to uncover artifacts.

• excavate

• escalate

• excalibur

• examine

A nomad is a _____________.

• stone used by Paleoamericans for making tools

• person who finds ways to do jobs using materials available to them

• person who lives in one place all their life

• person who travels throughout the year, moving from place to place, in search of food

What is an archaeologist?

• a person who travels throughout the year, moving from place to place, in search of food

• a person who studies artifacts from groups of people who lived in the past

• a person who studies dinosaurs

• a person who studies rocks

What are artifacts?

• a device for throwing a spear

• a stone used by Paleoamericans for making tools

• things made in China, purchased from Dollar Tree, then thrown away

• things made by ancient people, then thrown away, or left behind