Across
- 1. People who travel from place to place in search of food or for pastureland for their animal herds.
- 7. Means Old Stone Age; the time when humans made tools from stone and bone (hand axes; stone crushers; bone needles, etc.)
- 10. An organized way of farming.
- 11. Means New Stone Age; the time when humans made more sophisticated tools and shifted from hunting and gathering to growing food by farming.
- 17. Having specific knowledge of how to do a job or accomplish a task efficiently.
- 19. An enormous change or alteration.
- 20. A time when ice and snow covered the Earth. Prehistoric humans lived through the fourth of these eras from 100,000 years ago to about 9,000 years ago.
- 23. The name of the present-day nation where the Neolithic community of Catalhuyuk was founded; mud-brick houses with entrances on the roof.
- 24. The first form of government formed by civilizations; government by a single powerful ruler.
Down
- 2. Mysterious Neolithic shepherd or hunter whose body was found frozen in the Austian Alps in 1991.
- 3. A skilled craftsman or worker.
- 4. Raising and breeding plants and animals so that they have the traits that humans want or need.
- 5. Cities and civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China formed on ______ valleys.
- 6. A hard stone used to make stone tools and used to create sparks to make fire.
- 8. This metal, made of copper and tin, lends its name to the age in which tools were made from it; stronger than copper alone.
- 9. A tool or method to perform a task or to solve a problem.
- 12. Scientists believe that early humans migrated from Asia to North America across a land ________ near present-day Alaska.
- 13. The label given to a person who survives by hunting animals and foraging for plants, fruits, nuts, and berries.
- 14. One of the worldś oldest cities; a farming community that grew up on the West Bank of the River Jordan, between Israel and Jordan.
- 15. Paintings of prehistoric animals have been found in _________ in Altamira, Spain; and Lascaux, France, among other places.
- 16. An organized system of human communities that have government, technology and trade, organized religion, social structure, written language and art, and buildings.
- 18. After the Agricultural Revolution, humans stopped hunting and gathering and began to do ____________ farming.
- 21. Energy source used by prehistoric humans--and humans today--to keep warm, provide light, and to cook food. Animal meat is easier to digest when it is cooked.
- 22. An organized way of producing crops and goods to permit people to live.