Chapter 3 Vocabulary Georgia: The Land and Its Early People.
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Chapter 3 Vocabulary
Georgia: The Land and Its Early People
Archaeologist
• Archaeologists dig into the earth to find artifacts that will give us information about early inhabitants.
Artifact
• Artifacts are any items that were made by people. These include pottery, weapons, tools, jewelry, and even fossils.
Shale
• Shale is a type of rock that is formed in successive layers.
Anthropologists
• Anthropologists use artifacts, cave drawings and oral history to study the culture of a group.
Culture
• Culture is a term used to describe beliefs, traditions, music, art, and social patterns of a group of people that share common experiences.
Horticulture
• The science of cultivating plants and trees began in the late Archaic period.
Tribe
• A group of people that share a common ancestry, name and way of living.
Antiquities
• Antiquities are ancient relics. A relic is an object or a personal item of religious significance.
Clan
• Clans were groups of people within a tribe that believed themselves to be related by blood.
Paleo Indians
• Paleo (from Greek, “Very Old”)
• Also called Old Stone Age• Time period lasted about
10,000 years• Nomadic (roaming)
hunters• Most tools and spear
points made of stone
Atlatl
• An atlatl or spear-thrower is a tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in dart-throwing.
Archaic Indians• Archaic (means “Old”)• Three time spans:
Early, Middle, Late • Early Archaic period:
8,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C.
• Hunted large animals and small game
• Invented tools from deer antlers
• Moved with each season to find best food resources
Midden
• Used by archaeologists worldwide to describe any kind of feature containing waste products relating to day-to-day human life.
• They may be convenient, single-use pits created by nomadic groups or long-term, designated dumps used by a group of people that accumulate over several generations.