First Americans Vocabulary

A person's or group's way of life

• migration

• civililization

• culture

• federation

symbols or pictures to represent things

• nomad

• archaeology

• carbon dating

• hieroglyphics

a tool, weapon, basket, or carving of early peoples

• archaeology

• artifact

• hieroglyphics

• maize

Iroquois people were organized into groups of related families

• civilization

• terrace

• clan

• federation

movement of a large number of people into a new land

• federation

• migration

• condensation

• civilization

a person who moves from place to place

• nomad

• Lighting McQueen

• clan

• maize

Early Americans learned to plant and raise an early form of corn which allowed them to stay in one place

• True
• False
• maize

• artifact

Highly developed societies

• Have high rates of poverty
• clan

• culture

• civilization

Scientists can measure the amount of radioactive carbon in artifact made from any substance that was once alive

• True
• artifacts

• carbon dating

• Only in artifacts made from stone

the study of ancient peoples

• artifact

• maize

• civilization

• archaeology