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Native americans
native americans
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Artifacts | objects made by people in the past |
| archaeologist | a scientist that studies artifacts to learn about the past |
| prehistory | period of time before people left written records |
| ancestors | the people in your family who lived before you |
| Algonquin and Iroquois | two New York Native American groups |
| Farming began | more than 1,000 years ago |
| Longhouses | -large Iroquois home -made of wooden poles and branches -covered with sheets of bark |
| Number of families living in the longhouse | up to 20 |
| Inside the longhouse was | a cooking fire, a sleeping platform, and storage |
| Wigwams | dome-like shelter |
| Wigwams are made of | -branches, bark, animal skin |
| Number of families living in a wigwam | 1 |
| First settlers followed herd of mammoths and buffalo from | Asia |
| The first settlers crossed | a glacier (land bri9dge) to arrive in North America |
| What happened as the earth warmed up? | the glacier melted, causeing the water level to rise forming a waterway so people could no longer walk to north America. |
| The waterway between NA and Asia is called the | Bering Straight |