Vocab #1 Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. A prehistoric monument in England consisting of an outer ring of vertical standing stones, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones
  2. 5. tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet or for farm produce
  3. 6. arrange (laws or rules) into a systemic code
  4. 7. a complex society that is characterized by urban development, social stratification, a form of government, and symbolic systems of communication
  5. 9. the early phase of the stone age, lasting about 2.5 million years when primitive stone implements were used
  6. 10. A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand
  7. 12. the period of time before written history
  8. 13. The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and analysis of artifacts
  9. 15. The boomerang-shaped region of the middle-east that was home to some of the earliest human civilizations
  10. 17. a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase
  11. 18. A member of a learned class in ancient Israel through New Testament times studying the scriptures and serving as copyists, editors, teachers, and jurists
Down
  1. 1. The critical transition that resulted in the birth of agriculture, taking homosapiens from scattered groups of hunter-gatherers to farming villages
  2. 3. the species to which all modern human beings belong (humankind)
  3. 4. A member of a group of people subsist by hunting, fishing or foraging in the wild
  4. 6. a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the ancient near east (used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit)
  5. 8. An umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior and norms found in human societies as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups
  6. 11. a type of massive structure built in ancient Mesopotamia
  7. 14. The final division of the stone age with a wide-ranging set of developments (final stage of cultural and technological development among prehistoric humans)
  8. 16. A member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place (a wanderer)