ARCHAEOLOGY

DO NOW IN BOX #5

1. What is the man in the picture doing?

2. What is this job called?

3. What is the importance of their job?

WHAT IS ARCHAEOLOGY?

The recovery of material evidence remaining from the past.

CACTUS HILL

Location: Southeast Virginia near Nottoway River

Humans lived there as early as 15,000 years ago.

One of the oldest sites in North America

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

LETS EXCAVATE!

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

GROUP JOBS

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

FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS

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?

EXIT SLIP

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?

3 TYPES OF RESOURCES

Natural Resources: comes directly from nature.

Human Resources: people working to produce goods and services.

Capital Resources: goods produced and used to make other goods and services.

ASSIGNMENT

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.