Oklahoma History
Terms
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- viceroy
- governor
- fossils
- traces or remains of living things
- atlatl
- short wooden shaft with a hook at the end that was used to throw darts with more force and accuracy
- prehistoric people
- those who lived before recorded histiory
- totems
- an animal or bird who's spirit guided them
- polygamy
- having more that one wife
- anthropologists
- study artifacts, fossils, cave drawings, trails, and oral history to learn the culture of a group and how groups of people lived
- barter
- to trade one item for another
- archaeologists
- scientists who study ancient cultures by examining what they have left behind
- nomadic
- wandering from place to place
- shaman
- wise medicine man
- artifacts
- any item made or used by people
- protohistoric
- the era between prehistoric and recorded history
- petroglyphs
- pictures or symbols that convey an idea