Vocab #1

3. The wide-scale transition of human cultures from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture and livestock.
5. a massive, stepped pyramid tower built in ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) that served as a platform for a religious temple.
6. the scientific study of the human past through the recovery, analysis, and interpretation of material remains and physical culture
7. A person who moves from place to place instead of living in one home
10. a simple picture or symbol that represents an object, concept, or word to convey information without using written text.
12. an agricultural region extending from levant to iraq
14. the biological species to which all modern human beings belong.
15. to tame or adapt wild plants or animals over generations for human use, companionship, or work.
16. a person skilled in a utilitarian art, trade, or craft, especially one requiring manual skill
17. a person who writes down things by hand
18. any object made by human beings, especially with a view to subsequent use.
19. a famous prehistoric monument located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England

1. a person who gets their food by hunting animals, fishing, and gathering wild plants instead of farming or raising livestock.
2. human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research
4. having the form of a wedge
7. the final division of the Stone Age lasting roughly from 10,000 BCE to 3,000 BCE
8. to organize laws, rules, or practices into a formal, structured, and written code.
9. the earliest and longest phase of human prehistory
11. the beliefs, values and customs that characterizes a particular group of people.
13. a complex human society that has reached an advanced stage of cultural, political, social, and technological development