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Ancient AZ People
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| adobe | heavy clay used for making bricks |
| settlements | small communities |
| archaeologists | scientists who study past human life by looking at prehistoric fossils and tools |
| preserved | protected from injury or ruin so more can be learned |
| artifacts | objects and tools used by early humans for eating, cooking, and hunting |
| prehistoric | the period of time before recorded history |
| Asia | the world's largest continent with more than half of the Earth's population |
| population | the number of people living in a place |
| canals | man-made waterways for boats or for watering crops |
| plateau | a large, high plain |
| ceremonies | religious or spiritual gatherings |
| petroglyphs | carvings or drawings in rocks usually made by people who lived a long time ago |
| climate | the average condition of weather over a period of years |
| petrified | wood that has hardened and turned to stone |
| constructed | worked to put something together |
| North America | one of seven continents in the world. Bounded by Alaska on the northwest, Green land on the northeast, Florida on th southeast, and Mexico on the southwest |
| continent | one of seven large areas of land on the globe |
| Cultures | shared sets of beliefs, goals, religious customs, attitudes, and social practices within a group |
| monument | buliding, stone or statute created to remember a person or event |
| descendants | family members who come after on had died |
| mesa | an area of high land with a flat top and two or more steep cliffs |
| drought | a long period with no rain |
| mammoths | large hairy extinct elephants with tusks that curved upward |
| dwellings | houses |
| limestone | a rock made mainly of calcium from the skeletons of small sea creatures |
| eruption | breaking out |
| irrigate | watering crops by digging a ditch that leads from a body of water to a farm |
| granaries | buildings where grain is stored |
| fertile | rich soil that produces a large number of crops |
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Ms. McCoy
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