Across
- 2. shutting off a place to keep people and supplies from coming in or going out
- 5. money paid for the safe return of a person who has been taken without permission
- 9. scientists who study past human life by looking at prehistoric fossils and tools
- 11. the art of making things our of stone
- 13. military troops on horseback
- 16. the process of soaking animal hides in a solution to turn them into leather
- 17. a long period with no rain
- 18. a group of people sent with power to represent others
- 19. a person who herds cattle or sheep
- 21. people who explore areas for gold or other minerals
Down
- 1. a person who is held without permission
- 3. a leader in charge of a military unit
- 4. buffalo
- 5. sudden attacks
- 6. figures or designs shaped out of clay, marble, or metal
- 7. round Native American dwellings built with pols and covered in bark, mats or animal skins
- 8. a period without eating
- 10. large hairy extinct elephants with tusks that curved upward
- 12. a fight against authority
- 14. dating, finding the age of ancient objects by measuring the amount of carbon in them
- 15. planting crops and raising farm animals
- 20. quit