Vocab #1

3. 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.
4. the species to which all modern human beings belong.
7. an area in the Middle and Near East: formerly fertile, now partly desert.
10. a type of massive structure built in ancient Mesopotamia
11. an object made by a human being typically an item of cultural of historical interest.
12. relating to or denoting the late part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed.
13. a person who copies out documents especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
14. the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
18. an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached.
19. a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.

1. the period of time before written records
2. a member of a culture in which food is obtained by hunting, fishing, and foraging rather than by agricultural settlements and early civilization.
5. of or relating to the earliest period of the Stone Age characterized by rough or chipped stone implements.
6. all the ways of life including arts, beliefs, and institution of a population that are passed down from generation to generation.
8. arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.
9. a member of a community without fixed habitation which regularly moves to and from the same areas.
12. the transition in human history from small, nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers to larger, agricultural settlements and early civilization.
15. tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet or for farm produce
16. a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, consisting of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet high, seven feet wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones.
17. a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase.