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WorksheetsChapter 3
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
What are most artifacts made from?
Wood, cloth, and plastic
Bone, metal, and stone
Dirt, clay, and mud.
How do archaeologists use artifacts?
They use artifacts as clues to help build an idea of what life was like long ago.
They use artifacts as pictures to hang on the wall of their bedroom.
They use artifacts to describe how the Spanish Explorers discovered the fountain of youth.
An object made and used by people long ago:
archaeologist
migrate
artifact
What did the artifacts found at Dust Cave tell us about the early people?
They made tools and ate fish.
They grew their own crops and lived in wooded houses.
They traded with the explorers to get gold and jewels.
How did early Alabamians find food and shelter?
They built log cabins in the woods and ate fried chicken.
They stayed in caves for shelter and got food by hunting and gathering.
They used skills to make straw houses and ate from their gardens.
How did early Alabamians use the resources around them in their daily lives?
They used wood from trees for fires, stones for weapons and tools, animals for food and clothes, and caves for shelter.
They used rivers to travel to distant places to trade with the French guys...not the French Fries.
They bought what they needed at trade day at the top of the mountain.
Why did people in the Archaic period build shelters near rivers?
They used the rivers for transportation of their goods to far away tribes.
They did not live by the rivers during this time.
They used the rivers for water, fishing, and bathing.
Which early Alabamian archeological site was both a Paleo Indian and an Archaic Indian site?
Tuscaloosa
Dust Cave
Atlanta
What did Native Americans stop doing about 2,000 years ago?
They stopped eating pork and pork products.
They started writing about their contact with the French Explorers.
They stopped moving from place to place as much.
What was the period of time called when the Native Americans began to live together in villages?
Woodland Period
Grassland Period
Homeland Period
What new developments came along during the Woodland period?
They began to study the moon and stars.
They began to build houses, plant and grow crops and make bows and arrows.
They began to hunt large, wooly mammals.
Along which river are most of the Woodland Indian archaeological sites found?
Tennessee River
Chattahoochee River
Cahaba River
What were the four main groups of Indians that settled in Alabama in the mid 1500's?
Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek
Paleo, Archaic, Woodland and Mississippian
North, South, East, West
How did the Indians pass down their beliefs and customs?
By writing them down in journals
Reading the newspapers
By telling stories and with songs
What was the "Green Corn Ceremony"?
When the Indians planted green corn.
A celebration to give thanks for their harvest.
A party to honor the tribe's women for all their work.
What role did the Indian women play in their day to day lives?
Nothing. The men did everything for them.
Cleared the fields, harvested crops and built homes.
Cooked meals, cared for the children, made clothes, pottery, baskets, gathered nuts and berries and grew crops.
What artifacts have been found in Mississippian mounds?
Copper jewelry, decorated pottery, and tools.
Nuts, berries, and winter clothes
Cell-phones and I-pads
How do we know about the lives of the Native Americans in the early 1500's?
They snapped selfies with their I-phones.
Spanish explorers wrote about their contact with the Native Americans.
The Native Americans used their own written language to write history books.
