Colorado Story Ch. 2 Study Guide

This word means old or early.

These are objects such as tools and pottery that were made by people from the past.

A belief or practice handed down from grandparents, to parents to children..

Drawing carved into rock are called?

Scientists who study people and artifacts from the past to learn more about them.

This word means born in a place.

A small community of houses built around a central plaza.

These people have histories or written records about their lives.

This is the name of Ancestral Puebloans.

Before written history.

Homes of archaic people that were built by digging a whole or pit in the ground.

A relative who lived before you.

A form of art painted on rock.

The time when the first people lived in what is now Colorado.

These animals were brought to North America by the Spanish.

This is a story that teaches a lesson, celebrates a brave deed, or explains how something came to be.

This is a place where large groups of animals were killed by man.

Special round underground rooms used for important ceremonies.

Who were the first group of Paleo Indians to live in what is now Colorado?

Homes of Ancestral Puebloans that were built high in the cliffs of Mesa Verde.