MN History Northern Lights - CH 2

An a picture or symbol etched into rock is known as a ....

• Hieroglyph

• Petroglyph

• Rockglyph

• Cave Painting

A scientist who researches past people and civilizations using the artifacts they left behind.

• Paleontologist

• Sociologist

• Biologist

• Archaeologist

Purposeful story telling that helps pass on the history and traditions of a culture to future generations.

• oral tradition

• elders

• archaeology

• artifact

An object made by or purposely used by humans

• archaeology

• elder

• oral history

• artifact

This is the process of scientific discovery which includes a question, hypothesis, experiment and conclusion.

• Hypothesis

• Archaeology

• Experiment

• Scientific Method

An individual's way of seeing the World around themselves

• Perspective

• Spectacles

• Oral History

• Elder

This is a simple but very effective primitive spear throwing tool.

• Atlantis

• Atlatl

• Alabama

• Atlas

Which of these images were NOT found at Jeffer's Petroglyphs

• Turtle

• Hand

• Atlatl

• Tipi

Put these events in the correct order:

• Mammoths went extinct, Ice Age occurred, mound builders were here

• Ice Age, Mammoths hunted into extinction, mound builders were here

• Ice Age, dinosaurs went extinct, paleo-Indians hunted mammoths

• Copper was used for tools, stone tools were invented, mammoths were hunted to extinction

Which of the following would not be considered an artifact?

• stone tools & arrow heads

• fire ring made from rocks

• copper tools

• trees or grass growing on Indian burial mounds