4th Grade Social Studies: Chapter 2
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- Name some items that help archaeologists uncover the past
- Archaeologists find items such as tools, pottery, and fossils.
- A story that is handed down from generation to generation
- Creation story
- To give something to one person in return for something else
- trade
- A wooden stick fence used to catch salmon
- weirz
- shells that the Yurok used to trade with
- dentalium
- a group of people living together under the same leader
- community
- The tribe that lives in the Northern Coast area. Name two things that are special about them.
- Yurok- their region provides many rich natural resources such as salmon. They use dentalium as a source of money.
- What is the tribe that lives in the southern coast? Name two things that are special about them.
- Chumash- They used many sea animals for food, clothing, and trade. They had asphaltum, a thick tar-like substance to seal baskets and canoes.
- Who are the people of the Central Valley region? What are two things that are special about them?
- Miwok- Their community is centered around a roundhouse, and sweatlodge. They used games to teach valuable skills.
- A way of doing things that is handed down by older people to younger ones.
- tradition