Chapter 4 Vocabulary

2. animal skins
4. all-night celebrations held by the Coahuiltecans and other American Indians
6. scientists who study and compare peoples to learn how they live or have lived
10. friends who support one another
11. building material made of dry clay and mud
12. tools, weapons, and other objects made by people
13. groups of people/ American Indian families
14. alliances between different groups
15. people who study the past
16. scientists who use remains of materials that they find to study peoples of the past
17. periods into which historians divide the past

1. period of time before written records
3. circular huts
4. ancestry traced through the mother’s side of the family
5. system of growing different crops on the sam land over a period of years to improve the soil
7. groups of people who move from place to place
8. people who hunt animals and gather wild plants for game
9. movable homes made by some plains indians that were made from animal hides stretched over long poles