Chapter 3 Vocabulary

before written history

• prehistoric

• artifacts

• legends

a scientist who studies artifacts and ruins to learn about people who lived long ago

• geologists

• biologists

• archaeologists

a body that has been preserved

• cavemen

• mummy

• native

Ruins are

• what is left behind from making a mess

• when you drop your homework in a puddle

• the remains of an ancient home or other building

a home made by the Anasazi people

• pit houses

• caves

• Atlatl

Irrigation is

• a system

• a system of watering dry land through pipes, ditches, or canals

• old objects found from the past

Turquoise is

• a blue-green gemstone

• lava rock

• the state bird

Nomadic means

• the first people

• the Lost City

• moving from place to place in search of food

a story that tells the history of how things came to be

• legend

• folk tale

• fairy tale

land where Indigenous Peoples were sent to live by the government

• Nevada

• reservation

• desert