Quiz Ch. 4: sections 1-3

The period of time before written records is called ______________________________

• prehistory

• artifacts

• eras

_____________________________________________ are scientists who study and compare peoples to learn how they lived.

• anthropologists

• American Indians

• archaeologists

. ________________________ in the High Plains region has been a valuable site for the study of Paleo-Indians

• Lubbock Lake era (certain time in history)

• lubbock lake

• anthropologists

The first Americans are known by the term (word)

• Paleo-Indians

• American Paleos

• Mesoamericans

The first Americans entered (came into) Texas at least

• 12,000 years ago

• 40,000 years ag0

• 64,000 years ago

The Alibates flint quarries are a national monument located in

• the High Plains region of Texas

• The central Panhandle of Texas

The time when Spanish explorers first met American Indians is known as the Age of Contact.

• T

• F

The Karankawa people built portable ________, or circular huts, from bent poles covered with animal skins

• wigwams

• adobes

The Coahleticans held all night celebrations known as______

• wigwams

• mitotes

• rituals

The Karankawas used dugout _______to make their way through the bays and inlets

• breechcloths

• canoes

• kayaks