Stone Ages & Early Cultures
Across
- 3. An object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task.
- 6. Huge stones used as monuments or sites for religious gatherings.
- 9. Move to a new place.
- 10. Long periods of freezing weather.
- 13. A relative who lived in the past.
- 14. Name means Upright Man, this species walked upright all of the time and was the first hominid to leave Africa.
- 15. Large sheets of ice that cover land.
- 16. A strip of land connecting two continents
- 17. Name means Handy Man, this species was the first to make and use stone tools
- 18. Farming; the planting of seeds to grow new plants.
- 19. The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful for humans.
Down
- 1. People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits and nuts to survive.
- 2. An early ancestor of humans.
- 4. The first era of the stone age; when people first used stone tools.
- 5. The New Stone Age era; When people learned to make fire and tools such as drills and saws.
- 7. The time before there was writing.
- 8. The middle era of the Stone Age, from about 10,000 years ago to about 5,000 years ago.
- 11. A community of people who share a common culture
- 12. Name means Wise Man and is the same species as modern humans. Used complex tools, developed language and migrated around the world.
- 13. One of humans earliest ancestors. They first existed 4 million years ago.