Prehistoric Indians Computer Assignment
Name _______________________________________________________________________________ Period ______
Using historytogo.utah.gov, answer the following questions on Paleo-Indians, Danger Cave, Anasazi, and Fremont
Indians. Write your answers in a different fond, italicized or bolded as you fill in the worksheet. This assignment is due
Friday, November 22 regardless of how much you complete in class. Print it off before class so you may hand it to Miss
Pack.
1. What are the 2 main theories of how the first people came to the Americas? Name the most widely accepted
theory first (the second was the one we watched the video on).
2. Who discovered Danger and Hogup Caves?
3. Which caves were excavated in 1949 and found only moderately successful research?
4. According to data and evidence, about how large were social units living in these caves?
5. In reference to the Paleo-Indians: According to Jennings, life in this primitive culture was
“______________________________________________________________________________.” “In such
situations,” he wrote, “_____________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________.”
6. In your own words, identify the 3 most important things to know about the Paleo-Indians from the quotes
above.
a.
b.
c.
7. Draw a map of Utah and mark with horizontal lines where the Anasazi resided, and mark with vertical lines
where the Fremont Indians resided.
8. According to dictionary.com, what is horticulture?
9. What type of horticulture helped Anasazi settlements evolve and expand their economy?
10. By what Pueblo period had the Anasazi people left Utah?
11. Why did the Anasazi become known as the “Basketmakers”?
12. Describe the settlement infrastructure of the Anasazi:
13. Using google images, copy and paste pictures of the following:
a. A Navajo Hogan, similar to storage facilities of Anasazi:
b. An Atlatl, and a bow and arrow (the weapon that eventually replaced the atlatl):
c. Anasazi pottery. 1) gray utility ware 2) black-on-white painted ware
14. Fremont Indians varied greatly and shifted between which 2 lifestyles?
15. Although Fremont are hard to classify and do not have many similarities besides geographical location, what are
some of the particular artifacts tying the tribes’ cultures together?
16. Which geological regions of Utah did Fremont Indians reside in?
17. Copy and paste 2-3 pictures of the illustrations left by the Fremont in Nine Mile Canyon AND describe what you
think is taking place in the pictures.
18. Draw a map of Utah and mark where the Fremont and Anasazi Indians resided.
19. Without researching the answer, which Indian Nation survived the longest? Why?
20. Draw a Ninja fighting a mammoth riding a horse eating pickleweed.