Alabama Archaeology: Prehistoric Artifact Game


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Question 3.

Many of the tools used by Native Americans in Alabama were fashioned from animal bone. Do you know what tool this is and how it was used?

a. an awl/needle for punching holes and sewing

b. a pendant for a necklace

c. the shaft of an arrow for hunting

d. a pencil for writing

Photograph provided courtesy of the Office of Archaeological Research, University of Alabama Museums.