Across
- 3. the critical transition that resulted in the birth of agriculture,
- 5. (in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9).
- 6. the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
- 7. A person who does not stay in one place
- 10. a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing, examples having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 BC.
- 12. a crescent-shaped region in Western Asia.
- 14. humankind.
- 15. tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet or for farm produce.
- 16. a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
- 17. a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
- 18. an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
- 19. a circle of very large stones built in ancient times in southern England:
Down
- 1. a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting and fishing, and harvesting wild food.
- 2. the period of time before written records.
- 4. denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.
- 7. relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed.
- 8. arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.
- 9. relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.
- 11. the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
- 13. the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced.