1. Post-Dig Lab MA-BX-BS 2014

2. South Jordanian Desert

3. Humayma

4. Before

5. After

6. Tools of the Trade

8. Material Culture – The finds

9. Roman emperor Constantine I (307- 337 A.D.) ancient bronze Roman coin

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

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

12. 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

13. POST DIG - ARTIFACT FORM SITE ____ - ____ - _____ QUAD # NW, NE, 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?

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

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

17. Fishing

18. 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

19. Sheep and Goats

20. Textiles – Stola

22. Transportation and Trade Laetoli, Africa

24. Ceramic Potsherds

25. Colonial Building materials

26. Insula

28. Roman amphora shapes, and amphorae on wall-painting from Pompeii.

29. thermopolium

30. Anglo-American Pompeii Project.

32. Think Archaeology