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