1.
Explain the differences between history and prehistory.
2.
Before a system of writing was developed to pass on information, people depended on ________ which used stories to pass on their cultural beliefs.
3.
Archeologists love to find ________________ (refuse piles) or garbage pits.
4.
Pottery shards (pieces), weapons, tools, jewelry, or other items made by people are called…
5.
The beliefs, traditions, music, art, and social institutions of a group of people who share common experiences
6.
A type of rock that is formed in successive layers
7.
A person who uses artifacts, cave drawings, well-traveled pathways, and oral history to study the culture of a group
8.
A person who digs into the earth to find artifacts that will tell us something about early inhabitants is called….
9.
Excavations from this culture indicate that they used the grooved ax to clear trees and bushes around the camp.
10.
This culture existed from 15, 000 BC to 8000 BC.
11.
This culture existed from 8000 BC to 1000 BC
12.
This culture existed from 1000 BC to 1000 AD
13.
This culture existed from 700AD to 1600 AD
14.
People from which culture were nomadic hunters who wandered from place to place following herds of large animals such as mammoth?
15.
This culture was the first to use the bow and arrow.
16.
This culture is considered to be the highest or most advanced prehistoric civilization in Georgia. They lived in large walled cities.
17.
Farming and cultivating food developed during which culture?
18.
Explain why archeologists have found very few artifacts from the Paleo culture.
19.
A man within a tribe that leads his family from place to place hunting animals for food is called..
20.
Excavations from this culture indicate they used spears , choppers, drills, chipping tools, bone fishhooks, grooved axes, pipes, and the earliest type of pottery?
21.
The Atlatl was first used by which of the Prehistoric Native American cultures?
22.
The bow and arrow was first used by which of the Prehistoric Native American cultures?
23.
The grooved axe was first used by which of the Prehistoric Native American cultures?
24.
Pottery was first used by which of the Prehistoric Native American cultures?
25.
Which culture lived in larger villages with ceremonial buildings and large flat topped pyramid shaped mounds such as shown below?
26.
Which culture created effigy mounds and lived in small villages of dome-shaped huts with bark or grass roofs.
27.
Explain why Native Americans created myths/legends…
28.
Which Native American story helped explain why a person might get sick and die?
29.
Which Native American story taught people that lying and cheating were bad?
30.
Which Native American story taught people not to be greedy?

1.
Writing
2.
Oral Traditions
3.
Middens
4.
Artifacts
5.
Culture
6.
Shale
7.
Anthropologists
8.
Archeologists
9.
Archaic
10.
Paleo
11.
Archaic
12.
Woodland
13.
Mississippian
14.
Paleo
15.
Woodland
16.
Mississippian
17.
Archaic
18.
Moved from place to place
19.
Nomad
20.
Archaic
21.
Paleo
22.
Woodland
23.
Archaic
24.
Archaic
25.
Mississippian
26.
Woodland
27.
Pass down culture and beliefs to future generations.
28.
Spearfinger
29.
How the deer got his antlers
30.
Wisahesak and hornets.