Early Man
Across
- 6. The transformation of human society from nomadic hunter-gatherer bands to settled agricultural communities beginning 10000 BCE.
- 7. Humans, or modern humans belong to the biological family of great apes; the scientific name for humans.
- 9. The scientific study of the human past through the recovery and analysis of material remains.
- 10. The later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished implements prevailed.
- 12. Relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years.
- 15. A person who copies out documents before printing was invented; a writer.
- 17. Ancient writing systems by Mesopotamia, Pugarit, and Ugarit, only surviving on clay tablets.
- 19. A complex society characterized by features like a stable food supply, government, social structure, written language, and more.
- 20. A skill craftsman who creates objects with their hands, often using traditional methods and high-quality techniques.
Down
- 1. A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple, first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC.
- 2. A person or community that obtains food by foraging for wild plants and hunting wild animals.
- 3. An iconic prehistoric stone circle monument located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England.
- 4. The period of time before written records.
- 5. To tame an animal and keep as a pet or farm produce.
- 8. A crescent-shaped region in the Mesopotamia, named for its fertile land that supports early civilizations like Sumer in Mesopotamia
- 11. A symbol for a word or phrase used earliest as a form of writing from before 3000 BC.
- 13. An object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
- 14. To arrange laws or rules into a systematic system.
- 16. Similar or shared beliefs, customs, practices, and ways of life of a particular group of people.
- 18. A member of a people having no permanent abode and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.