The Stone Age
Across
- 3. an object made or used by people in the past
- 5. before written history
- 6. a group of families or households
- 7. one who moves from place to place; with no permanent home
- 11. to move from one geographic region to another
- 13. a person or animal that hunts
- 14. the beliefs, traditions, and way of life shared by a group of people
- 15. a slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow
- 17. a flowering plant linum ustitatissimum, in the family linaceae
- 18. age a glacial episode during a past geological period
- 20. the first period of the stone age, called the old stone age, from about 2 million years ago to around 8,000 BCE
- 21. to raise and train animals to live around humans
- 23. farm animals regarded as an asset
Down
- 1. the process of gathering crops
- 2. studying the past by examining objects that people have left behind
- 4. dating a scientific method that can accurately determine the age of organic materials
- 8. the business of farming; growing crops and raising animals
- 9. a person who collects things from numerous places
- 10. the later part of the stone age, called the stone age, lasted from around 8,000-3,000 BCE
- 12. an amount of something leftover when requirements have been met
- 16. the prevailing weather conditions of a region
- 19. of labor combines specializations and the partition of a complex production task into several or many
- 22. the use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes