OLMEC

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Across
  1. 2. a Central American cereal plant that yields large grains set in rows on a cob; corn.
  2. 7. signs used to make pictures
  3. 8. a tool specifically designed to track important dates for farming.
Down
  1. 1. sculpture represent Olmec rulers
  2. 3. Mesoamerican civilization, c1000–400 b.c., along the southern Gulf coast of Mexico, characterized by extensive agriculture, a dating system, long-distance trade networks, pyramids and ceremonial centers, and very fine jade work.
  3. 4. an edifice or place dedicated to the service or worship of a deity or deities.
  4. 5. of a method of agriculture used in the tropics, in which forest vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cropped for a few years, then the forest is allowed to reinvade.
  5. 6. the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round