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- 3. a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
- 6. 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.
- 9. a member of a nomad people who live chiefly by hunting and fishing
- 11. prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, consisting of a large circle of megaliths surrounding a smaller circle.
- 13. relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.
- 14. 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.
- 15. tame and kept as a pet or an farm animal
- 17. a member of a people having no permanent adobe
- 18. the period of time before written records.
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- 1. Cressent an area in the Middle and Near East:
- 2. an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
- 4. 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
- 5. relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed
- 7. the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced.
- 8. The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
- 10. Revolution a critical transition that resulted in the birth of agriculture
- 11. a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
- 12. arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.
- 16. the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.