The First Americans

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Across
  1. 3. Way of life shared by a group of people
  2. 5. Scientific method for determining the age of once-living materials
  3. 9. Movement of people from one place to another
  4. 12. Civilization in Central America that reached its peak around A.D. 700
  5. 14. Information or objects that help prove something happened
  6. 15. Study of past human life through artifacts and remains
  7. 16. Civilization that built the city of Tenochtitlán in present-day Mexico
Down
  1. 1. Pennsylvania archaeological site where evidence of human life from 14,000 years ago was found.
  2. 2. Long period of freezing temperatures when glaciers covered much of Earth
  3. 4. Powerful South American empire centered in the Andes Mountains
  4. 6. Land bridge that once connected Asia and North America
  5. 7. Person who moves from place to place in search of food
  6. 8. Object made by humans that provides evidence of early culture
  7. 10. First major civilization in Mesoamerica around 1500 B.C.
  8. 11. Early crop grown in the Americas, also known as corn
  9. 13. Viking explorer who reached Newfoundland around A.D. 1000