Dar and the Spear-Thrower Ch 1-3 Vocabulary

What is the term for a place where objects that will be used in the future are kept?

• Storage

• Initiation ceremony

• Tusks

• Prodded

What is the term for an activity a person must do before he or she is allowed to be a member of a certain group?

• Storage

• Initiation ceremony

• Tusks

• Prodded

What are the long, curved teeth of an animal such as a mammoth, elephant, or walrus called?

• Tusks

• Sacred

• Flint

• Insignificant

What is the term for being very important and respected for religious reasons?

• Tubers

• Pungent

• Clan

• Sacred

What is the term for a hard rock that is used to start fires or make tools?

• Flint

• Insignificant

• Marrow

• Shoots

What is the term for something that is not important?

• Tubers

• Pungent

• Insignificant

• Daggers

What are the parts of a plant that grow underground, such as potatoes?

• Tubers

• Pungent

• Clan

• Sacred

What is the term for something that has a strong smell?

• Tubers

• Pungent

• Insignificant

• Daggers

What is the term for a group of families who are related to each other and live in the same place?

• Tubers

• Pungent

• Clan

• Sacred

What is the term for the soft material inside bones that is very healthy to eat?

• Marrow

• Shoots

• Daggers

• Scavenging