Archaeology & American Indians

What region did the Pueblo Indians live in?

• Eastern Woodlands

• Great Plains

• Southwest

• Arctic

The Inuit live in

• igloos

• longhouses

• tipis

• pueblos

Who built their houses from cedar trees?

• Kwakiutl

• Inuit

• Lakota

• Iroquois

Why did the Lakota need to move from place to place?

• they didn't like the climate

• they followed the buffalo

• they got tired of living in the same place

• they followed the fish

The style of housing pictured above would be found in the

• Pacific Northwest

• Eastern Woodlands

• Southwest

• Arctic

The Iroquois adapted to their environment by building their homes of:

• mud bricks
• wood and bark
• animal hide and tree branches
• stone

Archaeology is the recovery of

• secondary source documents

• weather patterns over time

• material evidence remaining from the past

• population movements and the development of cities

What are artifacts?

• objects made and used by humans

• debris left by storms

• rocks thrown from volcanoes

• remains of animals

Archaeologists use artifacts to learn about

• ancient weather

• human behavior and cultures of the past

• animal behavior and groups of the past

• ancient trees

What group of Native Americans lived on the plains and moved around frequently?

• Lakota

• Pueblo

• Iroquois

• Kwakiutl