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This 19-word vocabulary word search covers anthropology and archaeology terms for middle school students studying early human societies. Hidden words include artifact, domestication, oral history, fossil, and hunter-gatherer, spanning human migration, cultural development, and archaeological methods. Use it as a chapter vocabulary warm-up, a review before an assessment, or edit it as a template for related social studies units.

Subject:
Social Studies
Topic:
Anthropology
Grade Level:
6th – 8th Grades
Updated September 2021

Word List

  • AGRICULTURE
  • ANTHROPOLOGIST
  • ARCHAEOLOGIST
  • ARTIFACT
  • CULTURE
  • DOMESTICATION
  • DROUGHT
  • FERTILE
  • FOSSIL
  • HUNTERGATHERER
  • LANDBRIDGE
  • MEGAFAUNA
  • MIGRATION
  • NOMAD
  • OASIS
  • ORALHISTORY
  • PRIMARYSOURCE
  • SECONDARYSOURCE
  • TECHNOLOGY

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