http://www.bogpeople.org/
Despite the seemingly spooky title
of this site, visitors should not be afraid of entering and
exploring around the contents of this very interactive site.
Created through a collaborative partnership between
organizations such as the Canadian Museum of Civilization and
the Drents Museum, this site concerns itself with the artifacts
and material world created by the so-called “bogpeople” of
northwestern Europe who lived approximately 10,000 years ago.
Visitors can explore their world through sections that include
“Science”, “Timeline”, “Profile” and “Mediatheatre”. The
“Mediatheatre” section is a good place to start as visitors can
view short film clips that cover the mysteries of the bog,
fishing with a harpoon, and the fabled Ubbena wheel. Moving
along, the “Timeline” area gives some nice chronological context
to the events and transformations covered by the site, and the
“Science” area includes some insights into what archaeologists
do in the field.
From The Scout Report, Copyright
Internet Scout Project 1994-2007. http://scout.wisc.edu/
The Mysteries of Çatalhöyük
http://smm.org/catal/
Let your kids dig around in this really well-done
archeology site. It lets kids explore a real dig in Turkey - a 9,000
year old neolithic village. There are interactive activies - I liked the
neolithic kitchen, where you get to move ingredients around to cook a
neolithic dinner.
There are tons of videos - if it's not too creepy for
your child, try the
time-lapse video of the excavation of an infant burial site. In real
time, it happened over two days, and you see it all in about a minute.
It gives you an idea of how slow and careful archaeolgy work has to be.
There's a game called "Excavation,"
where you get to drop "holes" on a photograph, revealing a small part of
the image with each hole. You try to guess what the photograph shows,
much as an archaeologist tries to figure out a village layout, one hole
at a time.
Beachcombers:
Digital digging
http://education.qld.gov.au/tal/tips/02158.html
Contributed by Kim Johnson.
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