UNIT 2 KEY TERMS

Section 1

Archeology- the scientific study of historic or prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts, inscriptions, monuments, and other such remains, especially those that have been excavated.

anthropologist archeologist tribe shale antiquities culture horticulture clan

FIRST PEOPLE

Bering Land Bridge (Beringia)- the route the earliest humans used to cross over to what is now known as North America

(10,000 BC - 8,000 BC)

BERINGIA

POSSIBLE THEORIES

Bering Strait theory- early people migrated from Eurasia over land bridge connecting North America to what is now Siberia.

KENNEWICK MAN

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/kennewick-man-an-ambassador-from-the-past/

TIME LINE

Paleo-Indian Period (10,000 – 8000 B.C.)

Archaic Period (8000 - 1000 B.C.) Woodland Period (1000 B.C. – 1000

A.D.) Mississippian Period (1000 A.D.- 1600)