Archaeology and Native Americans

Archeology is __________?

• When humans first lived on earth

• The recovery of material evidence from the past

• Native American Customs

• Someone who studies human behavior and culture through the recovery of artifacts

An artifact is _________?

• Someone who studies human behavior and culture through the recovery of artifacts.

• Something that only rich people owned

• Objects that provide information about human behavior from the past

• Native american customs

Scientists agree when and how people entered the Western Hemisphere

• True

• False

Which Native Americans inhabited present day Alaska and Northern Canada

• Inuit

• Lakota

• Kwakiutl

• Iroquois

Which Native American group inhabited present day Arizona and New Mexico

• Kwakiutl

• Pueblo

• Inuit

• Lakota

What is an archaeologist?

• A group of Native Americans

• An artifact

• The recovery of material evidence from the past

• Someone who studies human behavior and culture through the recovery of artifacts

Where is there evidence that humans lived on earth as early as 18,000 years ago?

• Capital Hill

• North Carolina

• Cactus Hill

• The Potomac River

What river is Cactus Hill located on?

• Mississippi river

• Nottoway River

• Potomac River

• Nile River

Where did the Lakota inhabit?

• The Pacific Northwest Coast

• the Great Plains

• The interior of the United States

• A rainy mild climate

Where did the Kwakiutl inhabit?

• The Eastern Woodlands

• The Pacific Northwest Coast

• A heavily forested area

• a rainy, mild climate