1. Thank You PTO
MA-SB-SS

2. South Jordanian Desert

3. Humayma

4. Before

5. After

7. Material Culture – The finds

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

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

11. Classroom lab

12. What do the artifacts tell us? How did Humans survive?
Answers these questions:
Shelter
Food
Clothing
Trade
Transportation

13. Gather – Hunt – Fish - Grow – Grind - Cook
FOOD

14. Paleolithic - Wooden spears 5 million yrs. ago

15. Neolithic Tools

16. Modern Hunting with spears

17. Fishing

18. Mesolithic

19. Agriculture – 6000 years ago
Donkeys pulling a seeder plow on a cylinder seal from Tell Suleimeh, Iraq, mid-third millennium B.C.E.

20. Farming equipment

21. Skins – Fiber – Spinning - Weaving - Sewing
CLOTHING

22. Sheep and Goats

23. Textiles - wool

24. Textiles - linen

26. SHELTER

27. Sterkfontein Caves shelter for hominids 4 million years

28. Colonial Building materials

29. Old Sherwood School

30. Transportation and Trade

31. Laetoli, Africa

32. Transportation and trade

33. Play time

34. Modern Toys

36. Ceramics – Potsherds reconstruction

38. Greek culture

39. THINK ARCHAEOLOGY
Not Indiana Jones