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Across
  1. 3. the critical transition that resulted in the birth of agriculture
  2. 5. (in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.
  3. 6. the study of the ancient and recent human past through material remains
  4. 7. a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.
  5. 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.
  6. 12. a crescent-shaped region in Western Asia. Formed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
  7. 14. the species to which all modern human beings belong.
  8. 15. to make an animal fit for living with humans
  9. 16. a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
  10. 17. a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
  11. 18. an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
  12. 19. The site on Salisbury Plain in England has been used for ceremonial purposes and modified by many different groups of people at different times. Archaeological evidence suggests that the first modification of the site was made by early Mesolithic hunter-gatherers
Down
  1. 1. a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting and fishing, and harvesting wild food.
  2. 2. the period of time before written records
  3. 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.
  4. 7. relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed.
  5. 8. arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.
  6. 9. relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.
  7. 11. a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept
  8. 13. any complex society characterized by the development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond signed or spoken languages