Intro Unit Vocabulary

1. Skilled workers who make goods by hand.
3. People who move from place to place in search of food.
9. Leakey Renowned archaeologist known for discoveries in East Africa.
10. diffusion Spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another.
16. Belief in many gods.
18. Objects made by humans.
19. People who study and write about the human past.
21. Period New Stone Age period characterized by agriculture and settled communities.
22. Period Old Stone Age period characterized by the use of stone tools.
23. Sparse, dry, treeless grassland.
24. Simple drawings that look like the objects they represent.
26. Complex culture with five characteristics: advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology.
27. Way of life of a society, which includes its beliefs, values, and practices.
28. One of the world's first villages, located in present-day Turkey.
30. Tools and skills people use to meet their basic needs.

1. Study of past societies and people through analysis of what they left behind.
2. Johanson Paleoanthropologist who discovered the fossil hominid known as Lucy.
4. To tame animals and adapt crops for human use.
5. economy Economic system in which custom and tradition control the production of goods and services.
6. Group of states or territories controlled by one ruler.
7. Time before written records.
8. Gorge Important paleoanthropological site in Tanzania.
11. Political unit that operates similarly to an independent city and its surrounding territory.
12. One of the first cities in the world, located in the West Bank.
13. Revolution Transition from nomadic life to settled farming.
14. Belief that spirits and forces live within animals, objects, or dreams.
15. Professional record keepers in early civilizations.
17. Leakey Renowned archaeologist known for discoveries in East Africa.
20. Stone Age Period of human history known as the Neolithic Period.
25. Study of the origins and development of people and their societies.
29. Stone Age Period of human history known as the Paleolithic Period.