Across
- 3. the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular group of people
- 6. A rectangular stepped tower sometimes surmounted by a temple, from Ancient Mesopotamia
- 10. People who serve as professional copyists
- 11. Relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly on clay tablets
- 12. A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand
- 13. To tame and keep as a pet or for farm produce
- 14. A wanderer or traveler
- 19. The stage of human, social, and cultural development that is considered most advanced
- 20. The boomerang-shaped region of the Middle East that was the birthplace of technological inventions
Down
- 1. Humankind, the species to which all the modern human beings belong
- 2. When some groups of humans gave up the nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle completely to begin farming
- 4. A member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild food
- 5. Relating to the early phase of the Stone Age
- 7. The study of human history and prehistory through excavation sites and the analysis of artifacts
- 8. Relating to the later part of the Stone Age
- 9. To arrange in a systematic code
- 15. Objects made by a human being or group of people, usually of cultural or historical interest
- 16. The period of time before written records
- 17. An archaeological and historical mystery of 100 big standing stones in a circular layout in southern England
- 18. A pictorial symbol for a phrase that was used as the earliest form of writing