Vocab #1
Across
- 2. relating to the later phase of the stone age
- 5. a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented
- 8. arrange )laws or rules) into a systematic code
- 9. the radical and important period of change in which humans began cultivating plants, breeding animals for food, and forming permanent settlements
- 12. a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock
- 15. relating to the early phase of the stone age
- 16. a symbol and/or picture that represents a concept word or instruction
- 18. the biological classification for modern humans
- 19. a human living a lifestyle in which most or all food is obtained by foraging and hunting
Down
- 1. tame an animal and keep it as a pet or for farm produce
- 3. crescent a crescent-shaped region in the middle east with fertile land
- 4. the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical items
- 6. an object made by a human typically an item of cultural or historical interest
- 7. a prehistoric ruin in england believed to have had religious and astronomical purposes
- 8. the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of mesopotamia, persia, and ugarit
- 10. the stage of human social and cultural development that is considered the most advanced
- 11. the period of time before written records
- 13. a worker in a skilled trade
- 14. a type of massive structure built in ancient mesopotamia
- 17. the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively