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8th grade ss Chap#5
jorgeChapter 5 - LOUISIANA EARLY PEOPLE
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| AGRICULTURE | farming |
| ARCHAEOLOGIST | scientist who studies the items left behind by ancient people. |
| ARTIFACT | an item left behind by ancient people and studied by archaeologists to learn how they lived |
| ARTISAN | skilled craftsman |
| ATLATL | throwing stick with weights |
| CALUMET | peace pipe |
| CLAN | a group related by blood. |
| CONQUISTADOR | Spanish conqueror |
| FAST | to take no food or water. |
| IMMUNITY | natural resistance to disease. |
| INTERCROPPING | farming method of planting two or more crops with different harvest times in the same plot of land. |
| MAIZE | corn. |
| MIDDEN | ancient garbage dump. |
| NOMAD | wanderer. |
| PALEO | ancient. |
| PIROGUE | boat made from a burned out cypress log. |
| PLUMMET | teardrop-shaped stone used to weight weapons. |
| POVERTY POINT | a prehistoric earthwork of the Poverty Point culture dating back to 3700 BC. now a World Heritage Site. |
| SAGAMITE | dish made from ground corn. |
| SHARD | broken pottery piece. |
| STINKARD | common people. |
| TEMPLE MOUND | a mound build by prehistoric indians for religious ceremonies. |
| TOTEM | tribal symbol. |
| TRAITEURS | healers. |
| TREATY | a formal agreement between two or more nations. |
| TRIBE | group of people who share a common ancestory, language, name,and way of living. |
| WATTLE AND DAUB | building method of covering woven sticks with mud plaster. |
| PREHISTORIC | the time before written histoiry |
| MOUND | a raised area created by prehistoric people and though 5o be used for ceremonial and burial purposes. |
| MESO | middle |
| NEO | new |
| AWL | long sharp spikes used to pierce holes in wood or leather |
| PRIMATIVE | not advanced. |
| YELLOW FEVER | a deadly disease spread by the bite of an infective mosquito, |