1. What is the man in the picture doing? 2. What is this job called? 3. What is the importance of their job?
The recovery of material evidence remaining from the past.
Location: Southeast Virginia near Nottoway River Humans lived there as early as 15,000 years ago. One of the oldest sites in North America
Archaeology: Cactus Hill Archaeology: Cactus Hill
Your team of archaeologists have just discovered the ancient site of Jadetopolis and recovered an artifact. Your team must carefully sift through the dirt to not destroy the precious artifact. Along with your team, reconstruct the pieces of the ancient artifact
Get into your groups: Assign every person a role (Writer, Sifter, Brusher, Compiler) With your group go to any station on the ground Carefully open the plastic bag and pour the contents of the bag in the sifting tray Use the paint brushes to carefully remove the dirt from the pieces See if you can put the pieces back together to its original form After cleaning up and putting the contents back into the plastic bag, get into your groups and answer the follow up questions
Writer – Writes the answers for the group Sifter – Pours the bag of dirt into the sifting tray and assists with finding the pieces Brusher – Uses the brush to clean the pieces off Compiler – Along with the writer helps put the artifact together
1. Why is archaeology important? 2. What do you think are some difficulties archaeologists face when excavating? 3. What do you think the biggest challenge would be for an archaeologist? 4. What can we learn from archaeological discoveries? 5. What are some things that you think archaeologists have discovered? 6. How does new information change our perception and understanding of the past and/or present?
Do you think being an archaeologist would be an interesting job? What skills do you think are needed to be an archaeologist? Is it a job you are interested in pursing?
NNatural Resources: comes directly from nature. HHuman Resources: people working to produce goods and services. CCapital Resources: goods produced and used to make other goods and services.
Resource Word Sort - In your envelope is examples of the 3 types of resources. Decide if each example is a capital, human, or natural resource. Write the word under the correct column on your charts.