CWA #128 crossword, and answers to crossword #127

This article is from World Archaeology issue 128

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Across

8 US state, location of the Dolores Cave rock shelter (8)
9 Legendary island where King Arthur was taken after his final battle (6)
10 Ancient Greek historian and geographer (6)
11 Persian dynasty founded by Ardashir I (8)
12 Neolithic pottery named after a tomb in the Orkney Islands (6,4)
15 Supreme god in Norse mythology (4)
16 Native American tribe of the Great Plains (5)
17 English county, location of Loughton Camp hillfort (5)
21 Mesopotamian city destroyed by the Babylonian king Hammurabi (4)
22 Norse explorer who founded a settlement in Greenland (4,3,3)
23 Palace for slain warriors in Norse mythology (8)
24 Indian Buddhist shrine notable for its rock-cut temples (6)
26 Province of China, location of the Naminan archaeological site (6)
27 Ruined Cistercian abbey in North Yorkshire (8)

Down

1 US state, location of the Pictograph Cave site (7)
2 Roman port on the Tyrrhenian coast founded in 273 BC (4)
3 Palm yielding edible starch domesticated c.3000 BC (4)
4 Jens ___, Danish archaeologist, author of The Primeval Antiquities of Denmark (7)
5 Egyptian queen of the 18th Dynasty (10)
6 Earliest epoch of the Tertiary period (10)
7 Country containing the Pumapunku archaeological site (7)
13 Structures consisting of two upright stones with a lintel (10)
14 Country containing the Wairau Bar archaeological site (3,7)
18 ___ Culture, Bronze Age communities of Siberia and Kazakhstan (7)
19 Spanish conquistador and founder of the city of Lima (7)
20 ___ Crescent, area of the Middle East considered to be the cradle of civilisation (7)
24 Egyptian goddess, the mother of Osiris (4)
25 Member of a nomadic people of south-eastern Russia (4)

For answers to #128, see next issue.

Answers to Crossword #127

Across: 6 Faience, 7 Palouse, 10 Goth, 11 Persepolis, 12 Afontova Culture, 13 Bateman, 16 Cecrops, 19 Aeolian deposits, 23 King Arthur, 24 Mari, 25 Comoros, 26 Caereni.

Down: 1 Badorf, 2 Seahenge, 3 Scipio, 4 Mameluke, 5 Cohort, 8 Stirrup, 9 Arras, 14 Amerigo, 15 Anacreon, 17 Rosemary, 18 Idaho, 20 Legion, 21 Parian, 22 Tiryns.