Chapter 2: Montana History

The traditional stories that tell about the creation of the world.

• Creation Story

• Theories

• Artifacts

• Pictograph

The scientific study of human cultures by analyzing the physical clues that people have left behind.

• Paleontology

• Archeologist

• Artifact

• Archeology

Objects produced or shaped by human activity.

• Petroglyphs

• Pictographs

• Artifacts

• Medicine Wheels

A scientist who studies archaeology.

• Archeologist

• Paleontologist

• Geologist

• Environmentalist

A transportation device made of two joined poles and drawn by an animal.

• Atlatl

• Drive Line

• Travois

• Awl

The images painted on rock.

• Awl

• Pictograph

• Medicine Wheel

• Petroglyph

The images carved into rock

• Awl

• Pictograph

• Medicine Wheel

• Petroglyph

A scientific method of determining the age of something that was once alive.

• Prejudices

• Carbon Dating

• Theory

• Artifacts

Swampy bogs are also known as...

• muskegs

• everglades

• tundras

• marshes

Ancient buffalo hunts herded animals along a....

• Drive line

• rock cairn

• Corral

• Travois