SS Gr3 Chapter 3 Vocab

low, dome-shaped building

• clan

• prehistory

• lodges

the height of the land above sea level

• clan

• elevation

• surplus

the time before people kept written records

• prehistory

• sea level

• elevation

the study of the way humans lived long ago

• archeology

• clan

• lodges

a greater amount than what is used or needed

• prehistory

• teepees

• surplus

the level at the surface of the sea

• sea level

• prehistory

• timeline

a diagram that shows when events took place

• elevation

• archeology

• timeline

piles of earth

• clan

• lodges

• mounds

extended families

• archeology

• clan

• surplus

a round, pointed tent made from buffalo hide that is stretched over poles

• lodges

• teepees

• mounds