1. MA-AT-DS

7. What do the artifacts tell us?
Interpretation:
The big universal questions
Food
Clothing
Shelter
Trade
Transportation

8. Context: Native American trade, food source, tools

9. Paleolithic - Wooden spears 5 million yrs ago

10. Neolithic Tools

11. Modern Hunting with spears

12. Fishing

13. Mesolithic

14. Agriculture
Donkeys pulling a seeder plow on a cylinder seal from Tell Suleimeh, Iraq, mid-third millennium B.C.E.

15. Farming equipment

16. Sheep and Goats

17. Textiles - linen

18. Transportation and Trade
Laetoli, Africa

19. Transportation and trade

20. Experimental Archaeology
Reconstructing past technology to better understand how people lived
Mock Excavations
Safety for students
Assures no toxic or dangerous areas excavated

21. Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork
Post-dig
Artifact form
Register finds
Data base entry
Ceramicist report
Faunal Analysis
Seed Flotation
Floral Analysis
C14 dating
Site report

22. POST DIG - ARTIFACT FORM
SITE ____ - ____ - _____
QUAD # NW, NE, CEN, SE, SW (circle one) LEVEL _____
ARTIFACT # __________
DESCRIPTION - metal ( ) bone ( ) glass ( ) ceramic ( ) other___________________ ( )
DEPTH FROM SURFACE _____ cm
Draw and measure the artifact: Height _________ Length __________
What is the artifact?
What objects from ancient civilizations had the same use?

24. South Jordanian Desert

25. Humayma

26. Camels

27. Before

28. After

30. Material Culture – The finds

32. THINK ARCHAEOLOGY
Not Indiana Jones