BCE

• Before Current Era

• Big Cuddly Elephants

• • Before Common Era

• Before Common Eternity

CE

• Common Era

• Cute Egret

• Current Era

• Common Epoch

Any object made, used or altered by humans, typically an item of cultural or historical interest

• Arrowhead

• Relic

• Antique

• Artifact

Heavy sheets of ice that move under their own weight that once covered parts of our state

• Glacier

• Ice

• Iceberg

• Snow Slide

• A rock carving made by people

Famous site near Jeffers, MN

• Pictographs

• Petroglyphs

• Hieroglyphics

• Prehistoric Carving

• An ancient launching tool that launched a spear or a dart

• Bow and Arrow

• Dart

• Atlatl

• Spear

• A community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in

• Habitat

• Environment

• Biology

• Biome

• An older member of a community who is respected for his or her knowledge and wisdom.

• Ancestor

• Senior

• Elder

• Veteran

A scientist who studies past human life and activities by examining physical evidence such as tools, fire pits, and ruins from dwellings.

• Anthropologist

• Archaeologist

• Astronomer

• Agronomist

The purposeful retelling of stories about the past events and legends of a group in order to teach about that group's culture.

• Oral History

• Folk Stories

• Mythology

• Oral Storyteller