Land Bridge & the Mississippians

A period of time in which temperatures on earth were very cold, and North America was covered in glaciers

• Ice Age

• Stone Age

• Bronze Age

• Space Age

The area of land which humans crossed during the Ice Age on their way to North America from Asia

• Bering Strait

• Land Bridge

• Siberia

• Animal Crossing

True or False: The Land Bridge was made of ice.

• True

• False

The study of evidence left by early peoples:

• History

• Prehistory

• Archaeology

• Mound-Building

An object made by humans and used by archaeologists to recreate a picture of the past:

• evidence

• tool

• petroglyph

• artifact

An artifact, document, or any other source of information that was created during the time of study:

• primary source

• secondary source

• tertiary source

• newspaper

Early Americans who lived in the east and were known for building mounds:

• hunter-gatherers

• Archaic Americans

• Mississippians

• Hopewell

The largest city of the Mississippian Mount-Builders

• Hopewell

• Beringia

• Cahokia

• Buffalo

The earliest known Americans have been given the name:

• Europeans

• Mississippians

• Archaic Americans

• Paleo-Americans

The earliest human fossils were discovered in:

• Africa

• Asia

• North America

• South America