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South Jordanian Desert
Humayma
Before
After
Material Culture – The finds
Experimental Archaeology Reconstructing past technology to better understand how people lived Mock Excavations Safety for students Assures no toxic or dangerous areas excavated
Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork Post-dig Artifact form Register finds Data base entry Ceramicist report Faunal Analysis Seed Flotation Floral Analysis C14 dating Site report
Classroom lab
What do the artifacts tell us? How did Humans survive? Answers these questions: Shelter Food Clothing Trade Transportation
Gather – Hunt – Fish - Grow – Grind - Cook FOOD
Paleolithic - Wooden spears 5 million yrs. ago
Neolithic Tools
Modern Hunting with spears
Fishing
Mesolithic
Agriculture – 6000 years ago Donkeys pulling a seeder plow on a cylinder seal from Tell Suleimeh, Iraq, mid-third millennium B.C.E.
Farming equipment
Skins – Fiber – Spinning - Weaving - Sewing CLOTHING
Sheep and Goats
Textiles - wool
Textiles - linen
SHELTER
Sterkfontein Caves shelter for hominids 4 million years
Colonial Building materials
Old Sherwood School
Transportation and Trade
Laetoli, Africa
Transportation and trade
Play time
Modern Toys
Ceramics – Potsherds reconstruction
Greek culture
THINK ARCHAEOLOGY Not Indiana Jones