The First Texans

Scientists believe that the American Indians who first lived in North America arrived during an _______________.

• archeologist

• Ice Age

• Asia

• artifact migration

These ancient Americans were _____________________, or people who collected plants and hunted animals for food.

• predators

• archeologists

• hunter-gatherers

• descendants

The first American Indians of present-day Texas were descendants of the earliest people who came to North America. In this sentence, DESCENDANTS means...

• relatives who lived long before, or earlier in history

• a person who climbed down a ladder, or descended

• early people who hunted for their food

• relatives who live after, or later in history

This is a flint spear point. It is an _________________ because it was an object made and used by people long ago.

• artifact

• fossil

• archeologist

• Ice Age

Scientists called ___________________ study the culture and artifacts of early people.

• fossils

• atlatls

• archeologists

• hunter-gatherers

This is a paleontologist. He studies the history of life on Earth as based on fossils. Fossils he might find that would be evidence of an Ice Age would be bones from

• bison, or buffalo.

• wooly mammoths or mastodons.

• rabbits or squirrels.

• hummingbirds and turkeys.

This is the Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument in Texas. Tools made from this area have been found in different parts of the country, showing that...

• someone stole a lot of flint from Texas.

• early people traded Texas flint far and wide.

• wooly mammoths existed.

• early people did not know how to make tools.

A quarry is...

• an open pit where people mine, or dig up rocks.

• another word for bison, or buffalo.

• a type of arrow that was used by Native Americans.

• a basket used to hold seeds and corn.

As the Ice Age ended, the culture of early Texans changed. They turned more to ________________ for food.

• wooly mammoths

• bison

• quarries

• plants

About 2,000 years ago, people began to grow more...

• hair.

• fossils, quarries, and flint.

• corn, beans, and squash.

• baskets, pots, and other dry goods.