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Archaeology for Kids: Uncovering the Mysteries of Our Past, 25 Activities (For Kids series)

By Richard Panchyk

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
1556523955, 9781556523953, 9781556528422
LCC
CC171 .P36 2001
Open Library ID
OL24256374M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
122 MB (128122372 bytes)
Pages
160\163
Topic
History Archaeology
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This activity book features 25 projects such as making a surface survey of a site, building a screen for sifting dirt and debris at a dig, tracking soil age by color, and counting tree rings to date a find, teaches kids the techniques that unearthed Neanderthal caves, Tutankhamun’s tomb, the city of Pompeii, and Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec empire. Kids will delight in fashioning a stone-age tool, playing a seriation game with old photographs of cars, ?reading” objects excavated in their own backyards, and using patent numbers to date modern artifacts as they gain an overview of human history and the science that brings it back to life.

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