Vocab 1

3. was a period of transition from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly large population possible.
5. crescent-shaped region in the Middle East, spanning modern-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, together with the southeastern region of Turkey and the western portion of Iran.
6. a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
14. humans living a lifestyle in which most or all food is obtained by foraging and hunting, like what most natural omnivores do.
17. arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.
18. member of a community without fixed habitation which regularly moves to and from the same areas
19. tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet or for farm produce.

1. relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.
2. rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.
4. complex society that is characterized by urban development, social stratification, a form of government, and symbolic systems of communication.
7. final stage of cultural evolution or technological development among prehistoric humans
8. professional copyist
9. the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
10. prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England
11. the period of time before written records.
12. modern human
13. symbol representing a concept
15. the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
16. an objects made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
17. denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.