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Across
8 Ancient Mesopotamian temple similar to a pyramid (8)
9 Legendary island where King Arthur was taken after his final battle (6)
10 Ancient Egyptian funerary god, one of the Four Sons of Horus (6)
11 Australian state, location of the Rocky Cape North Cave site (8)
12 Mediterranean island, location of the Minoan palace of Knossos (5)
13 Leslie ___, British archaeologist, author of Barrow, Pyramid and Tomb (1975) (8)
16 City of the Indus Valley civilisation in Pakistan (7)
18 Japanese province where a style of pottery developed c.1600 (7)
20 Native American people of Florida and Oklahoma (8)
21 Ancient Mesopotamian city-state on the river Tigris (5)
24 Family of Altaic languages of Siberia and China (8)
26 American term for a throwing stick (6)
27 US state containing the Swan Point archaeological site (6)
28 Name given to the medieval crusader states (8)
Down
1 Bronze Age nomadic peoples living on the steppes north of the Black Sea (10)
2 King of Wessex who ruled from AD 802 to 839 (6)
3 Priest of the ancient Celts (5)
4 Ancient Greek coins (7)
5 Persian dynasty ruling from the early 3rd to the mid 7th century AD (9)
6 Name used originally for the Arab tribes of Syria (8)
7 Mischievous god of Norse mythology (4)
14 Type-site of Palaeolithic industries in the Dordogne, France (2,8)
15 Any of a series of Hindu religious texts written in Sanskrit (9)
17 Astronomical treatise written by Ptolemy (8)
19 ___-on-Sea, type-site of a Palaeolithic flint-working industry of Europe (7)
22 Goddess of the dead in Egyptian mythology (6)
23 Barbarians settled within the Roman Empire in return for providing military service (5)
25 Max ___, German archaeologist, author of Aztecs of Mexico (1941) (4)
For answers to #116, see next issue.
Answers to Crossword #115
Across: 8 Pliocene, 9 Erosal, 10 Ucko, 11 Mesolithic, 12 Botta, 13 Hakataya, 17 Milagro, 19 Demeter, 21 Niah Cave, 22 Kabah, 25 Long barrow, 28 Edda, 29 Killke, 30 Old Latin.
Down: 1 Clactonian, 2 Cohort, 3 Reims, 4 Persian, 5 Bell, 6 Mortlake, 7 Mari, 14 Apet, 15 Alexandria, 16 Eric, 18 Anangula, 20 Overton, 23 Arenal, 24 Swede, 26 Ovid, 27 Aten.
