CWA #124 crossword, and answers to crossword #123

This article is from World Archaeology issue 124

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Across

6 Language spoken by the Incas (7)
8 Romance language with surviving documents from the 12th century (7)
10 Priests often associated with the ancient Celts (6)
11 Extinct language of Italy (8)
12 ___ de Rouge, French Egyptologist (1811-1872) (8)
13 Egyptian goddess of writing (6)
15 Algonquian-speaking people of North America (4)
16 Native American people of the Mississippi Valley, possibly encountered by de Soto’s expedition (5)
18 ___ Veirana Cave, Liguria, Italy, a site yielding Neanderthal to Mesolithic material (4)
20 Ancient Greek historian and geographer (6)
23 One of the hills of Rome (8)
24 Neolithic and Bronze Age tell in the Azmak Valley, Bulgaria (8)
26 Animal whose wool was highly prized by the Incas (6)
27 Empire of Babylonia conquered by the Assyrians in 1157 BC (7)
28 Province of Ireland, location of the Rock of Cashel site (7)

Down

1 Name given to the medieval crusader states (8)
2 ___-Eifel, Iron Age culture of the Rhineland (8)
3 Minoan palace on the east coast of Crete (6)
4 Kildare town with a recently discovered medieval tunnel system (4)
5 Mexican state, location of Mitla archaeological site (6)
7 Incan citadel (9)
9 Hero of Greek mythology who slew the Chimera (11)
14 Gladiator who led a revolt against Rome (9)
17 Silt deposited by rivers or floods (8)
19 Athenian comic dramatist and poet (8)
21 Roman emperor whose triumphal column was completed in AD 113 (6)
22 Iberian city known to the Romans as Portus Cale (6)
25 Recess in the wall of a Roman basilica (4)

For answers to #124, see next issue

Some of the committee wanted it to go this way, others wanted it that way, so we finished up with a compromise.

100 years ago…

The first excavations were carried out at the Upper Palaeolithic site of Dolní Věstonice, in what is now the Czech Republic. The earliest investigations were initiated in 1924 by Karel Absolon, and further archaeological research has been carried out on multiple occasions over the last century. These excavations have produced a fascinating assemblage of finds dating to the Gravettian period, c.26,000 years ago, including some of the world’s earliest ceramic objects, comprising thousands of depictions of animals, as well as several human figurines, the most famous of which is a female figurine known as the ‘Venus of Dolní Věstonice’. A number of human burials have been found at the site, as well as the remains of a kiln used to fire the ceramic objects, several huts, and assemblages of flint tools, hunting equipment, and pieces of clay with imprints of fibres that offer important insights into early textile production.

Answers to Crossword #123

Across: 5 Haroeris, 8 Aurora, 9 Wensum, 10 Altamira, 11 Ashmolean Museum, 12 Salish, 14 Actium, 18 Afontova Culture, 22 Isthmian, 23 Iberia, 24 Wierde, 25 Cyclades.

Down: 1 Ramesses, 2 Folsom, 3 Arimaspi, 4 Urartu, 6 Romulus, 7 Scarab, 8 Antum, 13 Longhorn, 15 Cluniac, 16 Mortimer, 17 Carnac, 19 Fusain, 20 Olive, 21 Theban.