Warm-Up: Regions Review!

Identify the region in each picture.

Warm Up:

What do the items in the bag tell us about the person who owns

them?

Today’s Question:

How do archaeologists uncover secrets of the

past?

Agenda:

1. Class discussion: What is Archaeology? What are artifacts?

2. Brainstorm: what objects are important to you? What do they tell us about the 21st century

3. Introduce mini-project

4. Video: Archeology and American Indians

Archaeology: the study of earlier people and civilizations, usually through

examining the ruins of their buildings and other objects they left behind.

Artifact: a human-made object, such as a tool, weapon, or work of art

What do you think this is?

Carving of the Staff God on a gourd, found at Norte Chico. Archaeologists used radiocarbon testing to determine that the gourd was 4,000

years old. However, the carving was found in soil and among artifacts that were only 1,000 years old. Did the people of Norte Chico preserve the

carving for 3,000 years or did they find a 3,000 year old gourd and carve into it?

Brainstorm: What are artifacts?

Come up with at least 5 items you own that are important to you!

How can we categorize these important items?

Take 10 minutes to complete page 16!

What do the important items to you and your classmates tell

us about life in the 21st century?

**Use the categories to help answer the question: How do people in 2014 communicate? How do they entertain

themselves? What objects are valuable to them?**

WHEN and HOW did the first Americans arrive in North America?

Answer the questions as we watch the video!

http://iceage.pwnet.org/index.php

1. Explain one theory of how people originally came to the Americas.

2. What is the major difference between the Beringia Theory and the Solutrean Hypothesis?

3. What is one animal that co-existed with early people in America?

4. How many years ago is the Clovis period?

5. What is the main artifact from the Clovis period?

6. Where is Cactus Hill? (Be Specific!)

7. What does the discovery of Cactus Hill dispute (argue against)?

8. Why is Cactus Hill significant?

How do we measure time?

1. Before the year zero, after the year zero

2. How many years before today?

Clovis Point: 13,000-12,900 Years Ago

Cactus Hill: 18,000-20,000 Years Ago

When did they cross?Archeologists keep uncovering evidence!

Kennewick Man9,000 years oldFound near the Columbia River Luzia Woman

11,500 Years oldFound in Brazil

Mammoth boneschipped by humans

30,000 years oldFound in Canada