New Mexico History- Chapter 2 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. A cone shaped tent covered in animal skins
  2. 4. The study of past people and cultures through the examination of artifacts
  3. 5. Another term for native
  4. 6. A term used by Spanish explorers to describe the Indian villages they encountered
  5. 9. The main form of Navajo housing
  6. 10. A hunting tool from the archaic period
  7. 11. The belief in one god
  8. 12. A large round pit structure used for ceremonies
  9. 13. A small hand stone used for grinding seeds
  10. 14. An oval shaped hut made by bending thin branches of green wood to create a dome
  11. 16. Meaning of "the people"
  12. 18. The name of the language that Navajo and Apache native people share
Down
  1. 1. A large flat stone used for grinding seeds
  2. 3. The belief and customs of a group of people
  3. 6. People living before the advent of written record
  4. 7. The belief in many gods
  5. 8. The first group of people to live in North America are called
  6. 11. The social structure of pueblo culture where all property is owned and inherited from the mother
  7. 15. government A government that is ran from a central location
  8. 17. People who move from place to place