Pre-history

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Across
  1. 4. The way of life that arose as farmers and herdsmen had to stay near their fields rather than hunt.
  2. 9. 4.4mya to 10,000BC from the first hominids to agriculture.
  3. 10. The first hominid to create art.
  4. 11. A half-moon shaped region extending from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers up to the Nile.
  5. 15. The first hominid, they walked (mostly) upright.
  6. 17. The practice of carefully digging through layers of earth to find material and human remains while carefully recording each finding.
Down
  1. 1. 10,000BC to 4500BC when agriculture and livestock farming began.
  2. 2. Movement using only two feet.
  3. 3. The first hominid to use tools.
  4. 5. The practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock.
  5. 6. The change to hands that allowed hominids to easily manipulate objects.
  6. 7. The first hominid to bury their dead.
  7. 8. The first hominid to use fire.
  8. 12. The type of economy based on hunting and gathering.
  9. 13. The way of life in which tribes constantly move while following the animals they hunt.
  10. 14. Animals raised in a confined area to be a food source when hunting is less successful.
  11. 16. The first hominid to make and use tools.
  12. 18. The name for the small statues of women that may have been a form of worship ficused on fertility.