Across
- 3. is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of what was left by people long gone
- 5. The period of time before there are written records
- 8. A general name for the group consisting of modern humans, extinct human species and all our immediate ancestors
- 9. The oldest hominin proto-human known. The fossil discovered in 1994 dates back 5.6 million years.
- 12. an object made by a human being typically an item of cultural or historical interest
- 13. Age a broad prehistoric period during which stone was used to make simple tools. The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years and ended between 6000 BC and 2000 BC with the advent of metalworking.
- 14. The closest existent group of proto-humans to modern humans. Existed about 30000 years ago.
- 15. Age A period in which the global temperature dropped allows ice sheets to advance. Last on ended about 12000 years ago.
Down
- 1. a device or implement especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function
- 2. the evidence in rock of the presence of a plant or an animal from an earlier geological period
- 4. a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting, fishing and harvesting wild food
- 6. People or animals who move from place to place following the major sources of food
- 7. is the movement by people from one place to another with the intentions of settling temporarily or permanently in the new location.
- 10. The name for the modern human species.
- 11. sites A place where archaeologists are digging looking for clues of human existence