Human origins vocab

2. the earliest period of human history,roughly 10,000 BCE
4. arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.
5. the process of a society becoming fixed to a permanent settlement
6. The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East
9. a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase
12. tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet or for farm produce.
14. the primate species to which modern humans belong
15. the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
16. begining of a settled human lifestyle
19. a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
20. the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced.

1. a member of a culture or society that obtains its food by hunting animals and gathering wild plants, nuts, and roots, rather than by farming
3. a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple
7. the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
8. the period of time before written records.
10. the remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock.
11. Ancient circles of large, upright stones that stand alone on a plain in England.
13. living the life of a nomad; wandering
17. the world's earliest writing systems, developed by the Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia around 3500-3000 BCE
18. a highly skilled craftsperson who creates objects by hand