CWA #122 crossword, and answers to crossword #121

This article is from World Archaeology issue 122

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Across

6 Homo ___, early human species, the name meaning ‘handy man’ (7)
8 Undeciphered script found on tablets in Crete (6,1)
10 Earliest epoch of the Tertiary period (10)
11 Recess in the wall of a Roman basilica (4)
12 ___ Ware, 6th-century Spartan pottery (8)
13 Paste used for decoration, produced from sulphides of copper and silver (6)
14 Kildare town with a recently discovered medieval tunnel system (4)
16 African city, location of the Christiansborg Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (5)
17 Egyptian goddess, the mother of Osiris (4)
19 Flinders ___, English archaeologist and Egyptologist (6)
21 African country, location of the Fasil Ghebbi World Heritage Site (8)
24 Deity of the Arawak people (4)
25 Structures consisting of two upright stones with a lintel (10)
26 Units of a Roman army (7)
27 Member of a people whose kingdom was sacked by the Assyrians c.640 BC (7)

Down

1 ___ Tradition, cultures of the Colorado River basin after AD 500 (8)
2 Italian town, the site of Hadrian’s Villa (6)
3 Ancient Greek name for Ireland (8)
4 Ruaidhri ___, Irish archaeologist known for work on Neolithic tombs of Ireland (2,6)
5 Site of a tell mound in the Olt Valley in Transylvania (6)
7 US state containing the Wilson Butte Cave archaeological site (5)
9 Assyrian king, the son of Sargon II (11)
15 Mediterranean island, location of the Monte Sirai archaeological site (8)
16 One of the seven hills of Rome (8)
18 Member of an early sect of Jewish Christians (8)
20 English city known to the Romans as Isca Dumnoniorum (6)
22 First Nations people of western Canada (6)
23 Ancient British and Irish form of writing (5)

For answers to #122, see next issue.

Answers to Crossword #121

Across: 8 Badarian, 9 Icarus, 10 Lartet, 11 Stukeley, 12 Karanovo, 14 Alaric, 15 Nenana, 16 Naiads, 19 Naveta, 21 Seahenge, 23 Psaltery, 24 Aleppo, 26 Urania, 27 Istanbul.

Down: 1 Oaxaca, 2 Maat, 3 Piltdown, 4 Knossos, 5 Vicuña, 6 Matera Ware, 7 Aurelius, 13 Arnhem Land, 15 Noah’s ark, 17 Atalanta, 18 Assyria, 20 Abejas, 22 Gypsum, 25 Etna.