Prehistory and Historians Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• prehistory: before written history
• historians: people who study and write about the historical past
• anthropologists: people who study the origins and development of people and their societies
• archaeologists: people who study past peoples and their cultures through their material remains-artifacts
• geographers: people who study the natural features of the earth
• culture: the way of life of a society, which includes its beliefs, values, and practices
• artifact: an object made by someone in the past
• technology: the skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs and wants
• paleolithic period: also called the old stone age, a period of prehistory from at least 2 million bc to about 10,000 bc
• neolithic period: also called the new stone age, a period of prehistory from about 10,000 bc until the end of prehistory
• nomads: people who move from place to place to find food
• domesticate: to raise plants and animals in a controlled way that makes them best suited to human use
• transition: a process of undergoing a change from one stage to another
• neolithic revolution: a period of history when the development of agriculture changed the world
• technique: procedure, skill, or art used in a particular task
• mesolithic period: a transitional period between the time between when people were pure hunter-gatherers and when they became farmers in settlements with domesticated animals and wheat