Learning Contract Vocab #1

2. a prehistoric temple aligned with the movements of the sun.
3. a time in human history when foraging, hunting, and fishing were the primary means of obtaining food
5. the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
8. a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase.
9. final stage of cultural evolution or technological development among prehistoric humans.
11. the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced.
13. a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
14. the period of time before written records.
16. the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
17. 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.
18. an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
20. tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet or for farm produce.

1. a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting and fishing, and harvesting wild food.
4. a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
6. Latin: “wise man”,the species to which all modern human beings belong.
7. arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.
10. a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.
12. the critical transition that resulted in the birth of agriculture
15. a person who does not stay long in the same place; a wanderer.
19. crescent a crescent-shaped region in Western Asia. Formed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Mediterranean Sea, this region gave rise to some of the world's earliest civilizations.