CWA #119 crossword, and answers to crossword #118

This article is from World Archaeology issue 119

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Across

7 Geological period following the Ordovician (8)
8 God of the sun in Greek mythology (6)
10 Viking-era trading settlement in north-west Germany (6)
11 ___ ware, Tuscan pottery made from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD (8)
12 Jomon Period shell midden near Tokyo (10)
14 Caribbean island, location of the Valle de los Ingenios UNESCO site (4)
15 Barbarian soldier elected emperor of Rome in AD 476 (7)
17 Term once used in relation to the Mesolithic in Ireland (7)
19 Plant of the cabbage family formerly used as a source of blue dye (4)
20 Adena culture burial mound site in West Virginia (5,5)
22 Germanic people who established a kingdom in northern Italy (8)
24 Ancient dialect of the Peloponnese and Aegean Islands (6)
26 ___ Tradition, Arctic cultures of western Greenland (6)
27 Officials of ancient Rome (8)

Down

1 Cereal plant probably first cultivated in China during the Neolithic (4)
2 Australian state, location of the Oaklands Sugar Mill heritage site (10)
3 Mycenaean settlement in southern Greece (6)
4 Canadian state, location of the Serpent Mounds burial site (7)
5 Ancient Irish kingdom (8)
6 ___ ware, Roman glazed pottery from North Wales (4)
9 Palaeolithic and Mesolithic tool or weapon made from an antler (6,3)
13 Bronze Age culture of communities in Siberia and Kazakhstan (9)
14 Container for cremated remains (10)
16 King of Mercia in AD 796 (8)
18 Empire of Babylonia conquered by the Assyrians in 1157 BC (7)
21 Son of Edmund I and King of England in 955 (6)
23 ___ Barrow, burial site south-west of Stonehenge (4)
25 Ancient Egyptian god of the sun (4)

For answers, see the next issue (CWA 120).

Answers to Crossword #118

Across: 8 Visigoth, 9 Larnax, 10 Tiahuanaco, 11 Livy, 12 Eocene, 14 Aventine, 15 Saalian, 17 Segovia, 20 Coritani, 22 Sesklo, 23 Bath, 24 Aethelbert, 26 Albion, 27 Tarascan.

Down: 1 Filitosa, 2 Niah, 3 Horace, 4 Chiapas, 5 Pliocene, 6 Trilithons, 7 Hatvan, 13 Eileithyia, 16 Alamanni, 18 Illyrian, 19 Hittite, 21 Oracle, 22 Snefru, 25 Bush.