BIG-GAME HUNTERS & DESERT DWELLERS

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Across
  1. 2. a term that describes anything made by people
  2. 8. a person who studies the things that ancient people have left behind
  3. 10. a giant animal hunted by Folsom Man
  4. 11. discovered by George McJunkin
  5. 14. Clovis and Folsom people lived on this side of New Mexico
  6. 16. type of hunters who lived in New Mexico about 10,000 years ago
  7. 17. what desert dwellers left behind to grow into plants
  8. 19. early people would ___ and kill big game
  9. 20. New Mexico was drier and warmer after this age ended
Down
  1. 1. scientists use radioactive or ____-14 dating to date plants and animals
  2. 3. scientists study these in trees to fix the dates of certain events
  3. 4. earliest New Mexico big-game hunters whose spearpoints are dated to 9200 B.C.
  4. 5. an area where early hunters killed game for food
  5. 6. grinding tool used by ancient peoples
  6. 7. by leaving seeds behind to grow plants, a desert dweller became this
  7. 9. the desert dwellers went through this number of stages
  8. 12. a weapon used to kill big game
  9. 13. big game lived in New Mexico when it was wet and covered with ___ lands
  10. 15. round area in the ground about 2 to 4 feet deep in which people lived
  11. 16. an item that desert dwellers used to gather and store food
  12. 18. spears for hunting big game used to chipped points made out of this