1. Post-Dig Lab MA-SB-SS 2014

2. Prehistory vs. History

3. South Jordanian Desert

4. Humayma

5. Camels

6. Before

7. After

8. Tools of the Trade

10. Material Culture – The finds

12. Two point eight four meters below surface 2.84m = 9’ 3 4/5”

13. Pottery Washing and Paperwork

14. Sotira, Cyprus

18. Experimental Archaeology Reconstructing past technology to better understand how people lived Mock Excavations –Safety for students Assures no toxic or dangerous areas excavated –To emphasize specific topics –Cultural Comparison American vs. Ancient World

19. Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork Post-dig –Artifact form –Register finds –Data base entry –Ceramicist report –Faunal Analysis –Seed Flotation –Floral Analysis –C 14 dating –Site report

20. POST DIG - ARTIFACT FORM SITE ____ - ____ - _____SQUARE # 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (circle one) 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: What was the artifact used for? What objects from ancient civilizations had the same use?

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

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

24. Fishing

25. Agriculture Donkeys pulling a seeder plow on a cylinder seal from Tell Suleimeh, Iraq, mid-third millennium B.C.E. Colonial American farmer with ox and plow

26. Sheep and Goats

27. Textiles - wool

28. Textiles - linen

30. Transportation and Trade Laetoli, Africa

31. Sumerians used pottery wheel and cart wheel

32. Ceramics – Potsherds reconstruction

34. Greek culture

35. Colonial Building materials

37. Sumerians had reed houses and monumental architecture

42. thermopolium

43. Think Archaeology