Learning Contract Crossword activity
Across
- 1. a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.
- 4. a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting and fishing, and harvesting wild food.
- 9. arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.
- 11. the period of time before written records.
- 12. a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
- 14. tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet or for farm produce.
- 16. the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced.
- 17. members of our own species who lived during prehistoric times.
- 19. a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
- 20. relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.
Down
- 2. the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
- 3. a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, consisting of a large circle of megaliths surrounding a smaller circle and four massive trilithons
- 5. an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
- 6. arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.
- 7. a picture or symbol that represents a word, phrase, or idea
- 8. the historical shift, starting around 10,000 B.C., from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle to settled agriculture and permanent villages
- 10. the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
- 13. denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.
- 15. a massive, stepped-pyramid-shaped temple tower built in ancient Mesopotamia, primarily by the Sumerians, Akkadians, and Babylonians
- 18. relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed.