Paleolithic vs Neolithic
Across
- 4. The study of layers of soil and rock to help determine the age of discoveries.
- 6. A village or community where people live in one location for an extended period.
- 8. Region of the Middle East where some of the earliest agriculture developed.
- 9. A method of supplying water to farmland.
- 11. The Old Stone Age, when humans lived mainly as nomadic hunter-gatherers.
- 13. A settled lifestyle in which people remain in one place.
- 16. The process of digging up remains and objects from the past.
- 17. The major shift from hunting and gathering to farming and domestication.
- 20. Having more of something than is immediately needed.
- 21. Scientist who studies ancient people through the things they left behind.
- 22. Upright-walking primates that include modern humans.
- 24. The species of modern humans.
- 25. A person who survives by hunting animals and gathering wild plants.
Down
- 1. Scientific method used to determine the age of organic material.
- 2. An object made or modified by humans in the past.
- 3. Preserved physical remains of an organism from the past.
- 5. The New Stone Age, marked by agriculture and polished stone tools.
- 7. One of the world's oldest continuously inhabited settlements, known for its ancient wall and tower.
- 10. Early human ancestor associated with some of the earliest simple stone tools.
- 12. The practice of deliberately growing crops and raising animals for food.
- 14. The selective breeding of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans.
- 15. Early hominid whose fossils include the famous skeleton called Lucy.
- 18. Focusing on one particular type of job or skill.
- 19. Famous early hominid skeleton discovered in Ethiopia in 1974.
- 23. A lifestyle involving regular movement from place to place.