Early Man

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Across
  1. 6. The transformation of human society from nomadic hunter-gatherer bands to settled agricultural communities beginning 10000 BCE.
  2. 7. Humans, or modern humans belong to the biological family of great apes; the scientific name for humans.
  3. 9. The scientific study of the human past through the recovery and analysis of material remains.
  4. 10. The later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished implements prevailed.
  5. 12. Relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years.
  6. 15. A person who copies out documents before printing was invented; a writer.
  7. 17. Ancient writing systems by Mesopotamia, Pugarit, and Ugarit, only surviving on clay tablets.
  8. 19. A complex society characterized by features like a stable food supply, government, social structure, written language, and more.
  9. 20. A skill craftsman who creates objects with their hands, often using traditional methods and high-quality techniques.
Down
  1. 1. A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple, first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC.
  2. 2. A person or community that obtains food by foraging for wild plants and hunting wild animals.
  3. 3. An iconic prehistoric stone circle monument located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England.
  4. 4. The period of time before written records.
  5. 5. To tame an animal and keep as a pet or farm produce.
  6. 8. A crescent-shaped region in the Mesopotamia, named for its fertile land that supports early civilizations like Sumer in Mesopotamia
  7. 11. A symbol for a word or phrase used earliest as a form of writing from before 3000 BC.
  8. 13. An object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
  9. 14. To arrange laws or rules into a systematic system.
  10. 16. Similar or shared beliefs, customs, practices, and ways of life of a particular group of people.
  11. 18. A member of a people having no permanent abode and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.